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Writing

EQUATOR Network -- Enhancing QUAlity and Transparency Of health Research
"Your one-stop-shop for writing and publishing high-impact health research". If you get a 508 page, try again later. It is a high demand resource.
Evaluate Sources
Before you use a source for your research paper, you need to critically analyze and appraise it for usefulness, authenticity, accuracy etc. This page gives information on how to appraise sources such as books or articles.
Guide to Grammar and Writing
Excellent guide from Capital Community College in Hartford, Connecticut. You can select from:
Word and Sentence Level
Paragraph level
Essay and Research Paper Level
Ask Grammar, Interactive Quizzes, Search Devices
Peripherals and PowerPoints

Elements of Style by William Strunk
ISBN: 9781625585004

Publication Date: 2012-12-10

The Elements of Style (1918), by William Strunk, Jr., and E.B. White, is an American English writing style guide. It is the best-known, most influential prescriptive treatment of English grammar and usage, and often is required reading and usage in U.S. high school and university composition classes. This edition of The Elements of Style details eight elementary rules of usage, ten elementary principles of composition, "a few matters of form," and a list of commonly misused words and expressions.
Guide to the Successful Thesis and Dissertation by James Mauch; Namgi Park
Call Number: View online

ISBN: 0824742885

Publication Date: 2003-05-29

University Writing Center
Provides individual, professional advice on all aspects of writing to UT students on a drop-in basis or by appointment.

Professional advice on writing is provided in one-on-one sessions called consultations. Undergraduates can be helped with their writing at any stage, including: finding a topic for a paper, organizing ideas and clarifying thoughts, and drafting and revising papers. Although they do not edit or proofread students' papers, they do teach students effective and efficient strategies for editing and proofreading their own work. Help is provided with class assignments and also with resumes, employment and graduate school applications and creative and public writing.

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PCL 2.330
512-471-6222
Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL)
Offers more than 200 free resources including:
Writing and Teaching Writing
Research
Grammar and Mechanics
Style Guides
ESL (English as a Second Language)
Job Search and Professional Writing

Plagiarism is a “serious violation of academic integrity. In simplest terms, this occurs if you represent as your own work any material that was obtained from another source, regardless of how or where you acquired it.” (Office of the Dean of Students).

To learn how to avoid plagiarism intentionally or unintentionally and how to paraphrase and cite correctly see the information at the University Writing Center's Resources page.

Publishing

Instructions to Authors in the Health Sciences - Contains links to online instructions to authors for over 3,500 health and life science journals.