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Writing Assignments & Citations
Subject Guide LRC@TCC
Scope: How to get started on library research, writing papers,
writing essays, etc. How to format citations, evaluate sources, and select
topics.
Call number areas to browse: LB2369 (Research papers), PE1417-1471
(Essays)
Keywords to search: Research papers, reports, report writing,
essays.
Subjects to search (Library of Congress):
Report writing, Essays,
English language--Rhetoric
 Writing
Center of TCC Offers self
help handouts and free assistance on a voluntary basis to students
who are given lab reports, research papers, essays, and other writing
assignments in any subject.
Dartmouth
Writing Program contains a number of helpful materials,
such as some well-written essays that answer the question "What
is an academic paper?" and also provide information on researching
topics for papers. The site also includes information on such
topics as writing about film, music, sociology courses, and examples
of citing sources in APA,
MLA, and Science.
Citations:
EasyBib.com creates
MLA and APA citation and works cited page. Other formats available
for a small fee. (printing may not work on public access computers)
Citation
Machine assembles gathered information
in APA style bibliographic and parenthetical citations (5th Edition
APA
Publication
Manual),
and MLA (6th Edition MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers).
KnightCite is an online citation generator service provided by
the Hekman Library of Calvin College. This service simplifies the
often tedious task of compiling an accurate bibliography in the
appropriate style by formatting the given data on a source into
a reliable citation, eliminating the need to memorize minute details
of style for multiple kinds of sources.
Examples (MLA) Citations
of popular TCC resources.
NoodleTools
Quick Cite Plug in the information about your source and
NoodleTools will automatically create an MLA format citation for
you.
Citation
Style for Research Papers APA, Turabian, MLA, Chicago, and
AMA examples.
APA
Electronic Reference Formats American Psychological Association.
Geological
Society of America style guidelines
Legal
Citation, Introduction to Basice based on the "Blue
Book" 17th. edition recommended by MLA.
MLA Style from
the Modern Language Association.
Nuts
and Bolts of College Writing is a writing-across-the-curriculum
primer. The writing-across-the-curriculum perspective challenges
students to write in many different fields, not just English
courses.
Citing
Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism from Duke University includes
APA, Turabian, MLA, Chicago for print and online resources and
sections on citing sources within your paper and assembling a
list of works cited.
Research
and Documentation Online by Diana Hacker is recommended by
TCC's Writing Center and includes the MLA, APA, CBE, and Chicago
styles.
OWL-Purdue University Online
Writing Lab
Sources:
Online Instructional Videos:
Library
Research at TCC Basic concepts of information literacy and
how to start your research.
Avoiding
Plagiarism at TCC provides general guidelines for using sources
in essays.
Plagiarism.org
Doing
Research in Tidewater Consortium Libraries
Evaluating
Web Pages from UC Berkeley.
Distinguishing
Scholarly Journals from Other Periodicals
Student's
Guide to Research with the WWW A tutorial for first year
composition and rhetoric students, includes evaluating web information.
Choosing a Topic:
What
do I write about? TCC sources of inspiration including Need
a Topic?
Idea
Generator from Old Dominion University library.
Issues
and Causes a collection of many topics suitable for college
papers, a YAHOO site.
Library
of Congress Classification Many topics to choose from with
call number areas for browsing.
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