Recommended Resources for Writing

• The Writing Center at Colorado State University has a web site called Writing@CSU that contains an amazingly comprehensive set of resources for writers and teachers, including interactive tutorials and demonstrations, writing guides, and extensive links to writing and teaching resources on the Internet. The writing guides related to conducting research seem particularly useful.
   

• The Guide to Grammar & Writing page hosted by Capital Community College of Hartford, Connecticut features provides answers to common writing questions and issues.
   

• Good advice about writing topics including grammar, style, diction, word formation, gender, social groups and scientific forms, and even e-mail conventions can be found in the American Heritage Book of English Usage: A Practical and Authoritative Guide to Contemporary English.
   

• The Purdue Online Writing Lab's Writing a Research Paper site contains a variety of resources, including a large links page.
   

• Although it hasn't been updated for the recent 5th Edition of the APA Style Manual, an online Guide for Writing Research Papers based on the Styles Recommended by the American Psychological Association is worth a look. Other APA guidance can be found here.
   

• It's often difficult to evaluate the credibility of material on the web; some helpful guidelines from the web site of Cornell University's library are here.
   

• Don't plagiarize - MM&C is committed to strict adherence to and enforcement of Temple University's Student Code of Conduct and in particular its policy on academic honesty. Every MM&C student is expected to understand and strictly adhere to commonly recognized academic standards regarding the proper citation of and reference to other scholars' work. Definitions and detailed advice about how to avoid committing plagiarism can be found on this page of the Purdue Online Writing Lab's site.
   

• Tara Gray provides twelve useful steps to getting your writing done and published in her 2005 book Publish & Flourish: Become a Prolific Scholar. A good short summary is available on this page.

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