Writing Resources

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Style Guides

• The Elements of Style by William Strunk. The classic style guide, on line and in full text.
• Citation Style Guides from the University of Alberta
• Citing Electronic Sources in Research Papers and Bibliographies for different formats

APA style

• APA Publications Manual Crib Sheet
• APA Citation Guide from Ohio State University

Chicago/Turabian Style

• Chicago Citation Style Guide
• Chicago Documentation Style Guide
• Footnoting Electronic Sources in the Chicago Style

MLA style

• MLA Documentation Style Guide; does not include electronic citation style
• MLA-Style Citations of Electronic Sources, from Columbia University in New York
• Style Guides, including style guides for electronic sources, from the Western Connecticut State University

Citation Management Software

RefWorks *NEW*, is designed to help researchers easily gather, manage, store and share all types of information, as well as generate citations and bibliographies. Franklin College has a site license for this service. If you are new to RefWorks you can Sign up for an Individual Account. Once you have registered be sure to use the online tutorials available at their website to learn more about how to use the system. If you have used it before simply go to the log-in page and log-in. Further information can be found at the RefWorks home page.

Research Tools

• iTools includes dictionaries, thesaurus, translators and quotations.
• Citation Machine, a free bibliographic tool for creating lists of citations in the MLA or APA style. Check for viruses while downloading anything, even e-mail.
• Nuts & Bolts Guide to College Writing, a commercial site with lots of good advice and links.
• Paradigm Online Writing Assistant, a collection of writers' tools and resources from Chuck Guilford, a poet and prof at Boise State
• Proofreader's Marks, a chart
• Proofreader's Marks, another chart of usage
• Proofreader's Marks, another chart of usage
• RefDesk, a page of links to all kinds of information

Online Writers' Resources

Machine translations of any URL: Copy and paste a URL into http://babelfish.altavista.com for a rough translation (word for word, rarely grammatically correct)

All of these sites have similar information, but differing presentations and formats. Look several sites over, and choose what suits you best.

• Garbl's Writing Center
• Paradigm Online Writing Assistant, a project of Chuck Guilford, poet & prof at Boise State
• Purdue University's OWL online writers' resources
• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's online lab
• University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's online lab
• University of Missouri's online lab
• University of Michigan's online lab
• University of Texas-Austin's online lab

Dictionaries and Thesauri

• The Acronym and Abbreviation Server
• The American Heritage Dictionary; word definitions include pronunciation [.wav] files
• American Sign Language Basic Dictionary
• Dictionary.com includes dictionaries, thesauri, and other references collected in one site
• Information Please's Dictionary site also features almanacs, an encyclopedia, and an atlas.
• Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
• NASA Technical Thesaurus
• One-Look Dictionaries, dictionaries and other references assembled in one site
• On-Line Dictionaries includes translation. Don't expect poetry...
• Roget's Thesaurus

Other Writers' Resources

• Intellectual Property in the Electronic Age by J. Walker at the University of South Florida