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Thesis, Outline, and Revision

How to Write a Thesis Statement (Purdue OWL)

How to Outline (Purdue OWL)

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Grammar and Punctuation

Active/Passive Voice (Purdue OWL)

Apostrophes (NCSU)

Big Dog's Grammar: A bare bones guide to English

Commas (Purdue OWL)

Grammar, Punctuation, and Spelling (Purdue OWL)

Grammar Bytes! Grammar instruction with attitude (chompchomp.com)

Hyphens (NCSU)

Sensitive Language: How to Avoid Insensitive Language | The Offensiveness Quotient

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Quoting and Paraphrasing

How to Paraphrase (Purdue OWL)

Quoting and Paraphrasing Sources (UW Madison Writing Center's Handbook)

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Citing Sources / Documentation Formats

APA Online Tutorial (Harvard Graduate School of Education)

Chicago Manual of Style FAQ (U Chicago P)

CSE Online Citation Guide

Internet Citations (NCSU)

MLA Style / Citing Internet Resources (UC Berkeley Library)

Research and Documentation by Diana Hacker and Barbara Fister (Bedford/St. Martin's)

Turabian/Chicago Style (UC Berkeley Library)

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ESL

Articles: A, an, the (Purdue OWL)

Dave's ESL Cafe

Grammar Practices and More (englishpage.com)

Grammar Quizzes & Puzzles (a4esl.org)

Grammar Rules & Quizzes (Capital Community College)

Word Lookup for ESL Students (Heinle's Newbury House Dictionary)

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Graduate Thesis/Dissertations

Writing and Presenting Your Thesis Or Dissertation

How to Organize Your Thesis

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Literature Review

Writing A Literature Review (NCSU)

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Style

The Elements of Style (1918), by William Strunk, Jr. (Bartleby.com)

Jack Lynch's Guide to Grammar and Style

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Plagiarism

Plagiarism Tutorial "How to Recognize Plagiarism" ( Indiana University, Bloomington)

Avoiding Plagiarism (Purdue OWL)

Plagiarism Information Site (WSU)

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Dictionaries and Thesauri

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Merriam-Webster's WWWebster Dictionary

Merriam-Webster's WWWebster Thesaurus

Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Thesaurus.com (Roget's Thesaurus on-line)

Travlang's Translating Dictionaries

Word Lookup, Thesaurus, & Grammar (Merriam Webster)

Wordsmyth Dictionary

YourDictionary.com (includes thesaurus and foreign language dictionaries)

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Faculty Resources

For additional online resources for instructors, see the Faculty Information page.

 

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