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Bryan Sinclair's ILS 179

General Writing Resources:

bulletPurdue University's Online Writing Lab (OWL)
bullet UNC-CH Writing Center
bulletThe Allyn & Bacon Handbook Companion Website
bulletWilliam Strunk Jr.'s Elements of Style (via Bartelby.com)
bulletDiana Hacker, A Writer's Reference, Fifth Edition
bulletEleven Rules of Writing, a concise guide from U Colorado at Boulder.
bulletRamsey Library's Course Reserves. Find e-reserve items here. (Note that you may need to download a version of DjVu to access materials).
bullet InfoLit@Ramsey Main

 Documentation

bulletRamsey Library's Guide to Citing Sources
bullet Columbia Guide to Online Style
bulletDuke University's Documentation Guidelines. Take some time to browse through this site--it's loaded with useful tips for avoiding plagiarism and citing sources.
bullet Research resources: what is plagiarism?
bullet UNC Writing Center Handout Plagiarism
bullet APA Documentation from OWL at Purdue
bulletAPA online
bullet Plagiarism Tutorial Test Your Knowledge
bullet Research and Documentation Online: Social Sciences (from Hacker online)

Critical Reading

bullet Paraphrase: Write it in Your Own Words from Purdue's Online Writing Lab (OWL).
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Overview: The Toulmin Method from Colorado State University

Writing Process

bullet UNC Writing Center Handout Reading Toward Writing
bullet Developing a Thesis from Texas A & M
bullet Invention techniques (from OWL)
bullet Writing a Thesis Statement from OWL at Purdue
bullet Writing a Research Paper from OWL at Purdue
bulletAnother handout on the Paramedic Method
bulletWriting the Annotated Bibliography (OWL)

Evaluating Sources

bullet Research Strategies
bullet Fallacies: Mistakes in the Logic of Arguments from UNC-CH Writing Center
bullet Evaluating Sources of Information from OWL at Purdue
bullet Evaluating World Wide Web Information from Ramsey Library

Grammar

bullet Independent and Dependent Clauses (Definitions) from OWL at Purdue
bullet Proofreading for Commas from OWL at Purdue

Unit I

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Silva Rhetoricae The Forest of Rhetoric

Created by Lorena Russell
Last Edited 06 August, 2005