Writing and Research

General Writing Sites

Basic Prose Style and Mechanics (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
 

History Essays

**The Thesis Statement (Bowdoin College)***

Thesis Guidelines (University of Washington)

Documenting History Sources: Chicago Style

How to Prepare an Annotated Bibliography (Cornell University)

Quoting and Paraphrasing (University of Wisconsin)

Reading, Writing, and Researching for History:  A Guide for Students (Bowdoin College)
 
 

Research

Evaluating Websites (UCLA)

Evaluating Information Found on the Internet (Purdue University)

Thinking Critically About World Wide Web Resources (UCLA)

Distinguishing Scholarly Journals From Other Periodicals (Cornell University)

Finding Information on the Internet: A Tutorial (Berkeley)

A Student's Guide to Research With the WWW (St. Louis University)

Research and Writing for College Students (Internet Public Library)

Conducting Research on the Internet (University at Albany Libraries)

How to Critically Analyze Information Sources (Cornell)

Evaluating Internet Research Sources (Southern California College)

Evaluating World Wide Web Information (Rutgers)
 

Electronic Source Citation

Citation of Electronic Documents (Tennessee Tech)

A Citation Guide for Internet Sources in History and the Humanities

Style Sheets for Citing Internet Sources (Berkeley)

Citing Electronic Information in History Papers (The University of Memphis)

Documenting Electronic Sources (Purdue University)



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