Grammar & Writing Help

With so much help at your fingertips, getting help with a project or paper has never been easier!

Need help figuring out how to use MLA citations? Try Citation Maker (creates MLA format citations for you)and also Citation Machine. The library also has a new resource to help - EasyBib!

Need some examples for formatting in APA style? Duke University Library has a good online handout.

Want to understand the mechanics of writing a high quality paper? Getting an A on a paper will help; this guide should give you some insight into what professors are looking for.This website is broken up into 5 sections.

1. Your thesis, the main argument your paper makes
2. Your research. Though different professors require different degrees of research, you should certainly learn your way around a library.
3. Details
4. Grammar and Style
5. Proper citation

Want to avoid plagiarism? Ignorance of the rules about plagiarism is no excuse, and carelessness is considered by your professors as just as bad as purposeful violation.

Grammar and Writing Guide
Grammar, composition, writing tips and more are all included on this site.

You can also review Purdue University's Online Writing Lab (OWL).

How to write an Essay for a History Class
Essays express the educated opinion of their writers. Historians form their educated opinions by examining and thinking about evidence of past conditions, causes, and effects. As with all essays, the history essay builds the points of an argument and arranges the evidence in such a way that will best put the author's ideas across. For the historian, her argument is her interpretation of the past--how and why events happened the way they did, and what those events mean to future times. In your history papers you are to be your own historian.

The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing
This site is broken into the following categories:

1. Thinking, exploring and revising your ideas
2. How to clarify your ideas
3. The structure of a paper, and how to get from your thesis to your conclusion
4. How to cite your research
5. Top ten list of common writing mistakes

Writing a Critique
A critique analyzes, interprets, and evaluates the text, answering the questions how? why? and how well?

Writing the Argumentative Essay
The goal of argument is to gain your reader's assent to your central proposition.