Online Writing Guides

Research Paper Writing Guide by Dr. Susan Smith Nash
Topics and outlines to help you plan, analyze, and write the paper you've always wanted to write. http://www.beyondutopia.net/research/

The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing
This site provides an excellent overview of the writing process, including thinking about your topic, the process, style, structure and mechanics of writing. http://nutsandbolts.washcoll.edu/thinking.htm

Writing Guides
In this website, the University of Kansas provides a menu of several guides for writing authored by our experienced writing consultants (denoted by pencil icons), along with many links to other great writing resources on the Web. http://www.writing.ku.edu/students/guides.shtml#6

Citing and Documenting: Various Formats
Research Guides for Students
This site provides research, writing, and style guides (MLA, APA, Chicago/Turabian, Harvard, CGOS, CBE) http://www.aresearchguide.com/styleguides.html

Style Manuals and Writing Guides — Cal State LA
This site is a compilation of style manuals and writing guides hosted on Cal State LA’s University Library website. Styles covered include AAA, APA, ASA, CBE, Chicago, MLA, and Turabian. http://www.calstatela.edu/library/styleman.htm

Writing Center of the University of Wisconsin - Madison
This site provides information and guides on citing references in your paper, using APSA, APA, Chicago/Turabian, CBE, and MLA formats. http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/Documentation.html

ConocoPhillips Writing Center-Online Resources
The University of Oklahoma’s writing center. This site provides information on grammar, English language practice, style, and citation formats. http://www.ou.edu/writingcenter/resources.html

APA Formatting and Style Guide: Purdue University
APA (American Psychological Association) is most commonly used to cite sources within the social sciences. This resource, revised according to the 5th edition of the APA manual, offers examples for the general format of APA research papers, in-text citations, endnotes/footnotes, and the reference page. http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/

APA Website
APA’s online guide to the 5th edition of APA's Publication Manual. http://www.apastyle.org/

Psychology With Style
A Hypertext Writing Guide (for the 5th edition of the APA Manual). Written by M. Plonsky, Ph.D.

University of Wisconsin
Stevens Point http://www.uwsp.edu/psych/apa4b.htm

University of Minnesota-Crookston
This site provides a crib sheet for APA style. It is not intended to replace the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 5th edition. Only selected citations were chosen for inclusion here. For other examples see the printed Manual. Use this only as a reference. http://www.crk.umn.edu/library/links/apa5th.htm