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- Student Guides -

 

English Department student guides provide quick, concise, and useful reference information on specific writing concerns that students deal with regularly.  Our guides are organized conveniently by category below:

 


Essay Writing and Research Papers

 

·         Planning and Writing an Essay or Research Paper

 

·         Creating Effective Outlines

 

·        Sample Student Outline

 


Citing Sources

 

·         Avoiding Plagiarism

·         How to Cite Your Sources: Essential Steps for MLA (PowerPoint Slides)

 

·         MLA Style Guidelines 

·         MLA Style Guidelines (Word format)

 

·         APA Style Guidelines 

·         APA Style Guidelines (Word format)

 

·         IEEE Style Guidelines (University of Calgary)

 

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Business and Technical Writing

 

·         OWL : Handouts: Professional/Business Writing

 

·         Visit the following links for excellent guides on specific types of technical communication

§         http://www.ecf.utoronto.ca/~writing/ (Engineering Writing Centre)

§         IEEE Professional Communication Society

 


Presentations & Speeches

 

·         Giving Effective Presentations

 

·         Visit presentations.com, a site with excellent, current strategies and approaches to doing workplace presentations

 

www.presentations.com

 

 

 

 

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