Here are some useful sites and tips for writing your term paper.
Citation and Style Guides
- Elements of Style: the classic manual for writing classic papers
- Brief Citation Guide for Internet Resources: focus on history and the humanities, including political science
- Citing Electronic Resources: links to various ways to cite Internet-related sources from the Internet Public Library
Grammar and Writing
- Online English Grammar: basic English grammar tips
- Online Writing Assistant: tips on writing essays, documenting resources and editing
- “Rationally Persuasive Writing is Like House Painting: It’s All in the Preliminaries”: Joel J. Kassiola.
Reference Materials
- Virtual Reference Desk: dictionaries, phone books, maps and government documents
- Scholes Library Electronic Reference Desk
- Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations: passages, phrases and proverbs traced to their sources; includes search engine
- Thesaurus.com
- Encyclopedia Britannica