style and editing guides

Guide to Grammar and Style
Here's help for grammar and style concerns from semi-colons and dangling participles to clarity and audience awareness.

A Guide for Writing Research Papers based on MLA Documentation
This site provides helpful information about gathering resources for research papers, taking notes, and preparing a works cited page.  Also includes a thorough list of different types of resources with sample works cited entries.

Modern Language Association on the Web
Includes information about MLA - membership, publications, annual conventions - plus a clear guide to citing electronic sources.

The Columbia Guide to Online Style by Janice Walker and Todd Taylor
Provides information on citing different electronically-accessed resources in both Humanities (MLA and Chicago) and Science (APA and CBE) styles.

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online reference resources

ASU Undergraduate Advising Page
Find out more about what your options are here at ASU, and contact an advisor.

ASU Libraries Homepage
Begin your ASU Library searches here.  Be sure to check out the Help links for information about various topics such as writing term papers, evaluating sources, and "Library Lingo."

OneLook Dictionaries
A search-engine based site that searches for online dictionaries that will provide a definition for almost any term you enter.  By clicking on the list of dictionaries, you can focus your search for definitions.

The Exploding Dictionary
Provides both a "clean" straightfoward definition of a word as well as a definition that is cross-referenced and hyperlinked to the max. Both fun and useful.

Information Please
Millions of useful and interesting facts on a wide range of topics online, with dictionary and encyclopedia. This could be a good place to mine for ideas. 

A Student's Guide to Research with the World Wide Web
An extremely useful tutorial guide that covers many aspects of conducting searches on the web.  This site contains information about the anatomy of web pages and conducting successful web searches.

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online writing labs

02/13/2006 5:39 PMc.bsu.edu/~owl_shop/web.html">World Wide Web-Based Online Writing LabsFebruary 13, 2006tensive listing of OWLs all over the United States.  Many have handouts and/or guides for writing.

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