Need some reminders? Check out these sites!
Guidelines
for Writing Research Papers. This site
includes answers to questions that students have asked about references,
etc.
A
hypertext paper by M. Plonsky.
And our own M.
Whatley has created a rather useful site.
And for links to other APA sites try Psychweb.
They had to change it sometime... Here are some of the major differences between APA 4th Edition and APA 5th Edition.
Web based material - how to reference it.
Straight from the horse's mouth - here's what APA
says about electronic reference formats.
Grammar and other stuff.
Can't remember a rule of some sort (just where does
the comma go? when do I use then and than?)? Need a different word? Try
hitting one of these places.
Bartleby.com has an
on-line thesarus, English usage, dictionary, etc.
The different word types of errors that people make can be found at
P.
Brian's website. This also has other useful web sites.
Plagerism
and Paraphrasing.
Plagerism is more than just copying someone
else's work and taking credit for it. Even if you do cite the other person's
work, you need to change more than just 1 or 2 words. If I can follow almost
word for word what you wrote and what the author of the paper wrote,
you have not paraphrased enough. Some sites that can help you understand
this better include:
The On-Line
Writing Lab at Purdue has 6 steps to help paraphrase properly. It also
has an on-line
guide to APA style.
Some useful tips can also be found at D. Wasieleski's
site.
More links for information about general writing tips, appropriate resources, and what is acceptable paraphrasing can be found at H. Foley's site.