Tips+for+Academic+Writing

Many types and styles of writing exist, journalistic, literary, descriptive, narrative, expository, persuasive. Academic writing is a very specific style that requires instruction and practice. This page will direct you to a variety of resources that will help you develop your graduate level academic writing skills.

Aristotle's steps for developing a classical argument http://www.austincc.edu/buck/eng/1301/pubtexts/Argument.htm

APA Style Guide Blog http://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/2012/06/who-versus-that.html OWL at Purdue http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/

OWL APA presentation

Lee Bowman's tips http://elearning.homestead.com/ACADEMIC_WRITING_GUIDE.htm Study Guide and Strategies http://studygs.net/index.htm [|Grammarly grammar checker]

Critically Analyzing Information Sources http://olinuris.library.cornell.edu/ref/research/skill26.htm

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Evaluating Internet Resources: An Annotated Guide to Selected Resource http://www.loc.gov/rr/business/beonline/selectbib.html

Recognizing the difference between scholarly journals and non- scholarly periodicals. http://www.library.cornell.edu/olinuris/ref/research/skill20.html (Cornell University)

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