MMTC LIBRARY
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writing and formatting papers
apa and mla formats
- Learning APA Style - Free tutorials for APA beginners and more experienced students
- Research and Documentation Online - Sample paper using APA (click on "Social Sciences")
- Citation Machine - Choose MLA or APA, fill in the blanks, then copy your bibliography into your document
- Citation Builder from NCSU Libraries - Easy citation building tool that creates bibliographies in both MLA & APA formats
- APA Exposed Tutorials - Quick overview of APA formatting basics (headsets are available at the Library Desk)
writing essayS AND REPORTS
- Homework Center: Writing Skills - How to write essays and reports; definitions of the different essay types
- Essay Writing: Purdue OWL - Types of essays, how to write essays, plus report writing, outlining and more
grammar and style help
- Guide to Grammar & Writing - Sentences, capitalization, quotation marks and other helpful topics
- Elements of Style (Strunk & White) - Punctuation and style tips; print version is in the MMTC Library
AVOIDING PLAGIARISM
- The best way to avoid plagiarism is to know what it means to plagiarize. If you're doing any of the following, you're plagiarizing:
- - Copying directly from a source into your paper without using quotation marks and without citing the source
- - Changing words in a phrase, sentence or paragraph and pretending that you wrote it
- - Using somebody else's paper, whether you got it from a friend or you bought it
- - Downloading, saving or printing an article, changing a few things and pretending that you wrote it
- - Using the citations or bibliography from somebody else's paper
- - Copying a copyrighted picture, image or graphic into your paper without permission and without citing the source
- - Using information from an interview or discussion in your paper without citing the source
- While researching your paper, make sure you WRITE DOWN YOUR SOURCES so you can cite them in the paper.
- Use these links for additional information:
- Is it Plagiarism Yet: Purdue OWL - Identifying plagiarism and safe practices
- You Quote It, You Note It (Acadia University) - Interactive tutorial on plagiarism
- Principles of Paraphrasing - Tutorial on quoting, paraphrasing and summarizing (headsets available at the Library Desk)
- Turnitin Student Training - Get help signing up, printing your paper, retrieving your password, etc.