Writing Guides, Grammar Guides, Formatting Guides,
Dictionaries
Print:
- Little, Brown Handbook -- guide to usage
and MLA and APA format; the guide adopted by the Freshman Committee
for use in all freshman classes offered by this department.
- Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr. & E.B. White
-- guide to usage.
- Bedford Handbook -- guide to usage and MLA, APA, and Chicago
format.
- Harbrace Handbook -- guide to usage and MLA and APA format.
- MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers,
6th. edition, by Joseph Gibaldi -- current edition of the complete guide
to MLA paper format.
- Chicago Manual of Style -- guide to usage and formatting
for materials adhering to the Chicago Manual of Style conventions.
- A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations
by Kate Turabian -- guide to usage and formatting for materials adhering
to the Turabian stylistic conventions.
- Publication Manual for the American Psychological Association
-- guide to usage and formatting for materials adhering to APA stylistic
conventions.
- American Heritage College Dictionary,
4th. edition -- the dictionary recommended by the Freshman
Committee for use in all freshman classes offered by this department.
A dictionary by the same publisher is accessible on-line at http://www.bartleby.com/61/
- Oxford English Dictionary (the OED) -- the
reference work used to discern the meaning(s) of a word in the historical
context of its appearance; the work that should be consulted to determine
the contextually accurate meaning of a word in any non-contemporary
piece.
On-line:
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