The Write Stuff: Writing as a Performing and Political Art, Second Edition, by Thomas E. Cronin
Elements
of Style
by William Strunk Jr. is the classic guide used for
many years. It is entirely online (unlike the current style manuals) and
still serves as a good general guide to writing style.
Guide to Grammar and Writing
by the Captial Center
Community College is a concise guide to the basics of writing well. The
sites can be easily navigated and your questions answered quickly.
The Online Writing
Lab (OWL)
of Purdue University combines their local activities
with tremendous web-based resources on writing style. Pay particular
attention to the "Resources for Writers" section.
The Composition Center of Dartmouth University
has
many of the same resources found elsewhere. The "Coming up with your
topic" section is an excellent and engaging description of how reading,
thinking and writing should be simultaneously integrated into the
writing process.
"Writing Tools"
from the Writing Center at Harvard
University has many important observations bout the writing process. One
of the most important, yet often overlooked topics, is "How to Read an
Assignment."
The style manual produced by
the Modern Language Association(MLA)
is the standard in the
social sciences and commonly used in the political science classroom.
They offer guidelines for citing sources found on the Internet. For a
guide to citing print sources you can find the MLA style summarized by
Concordia University
The American
Psychological Association (APA)
"How to Cite Information From
the Internet and the World Wide Web" provides examples of electronic
citations for the APA style.
Concordia University provides an online guide to all
APA citation styles.
"Citing Internet Sources"
is a thorough look at
citation styles for the World Wide Web.
The Style
Manual for Political Science
is published by the American
Political Science Association (APSA) . It should be published online,
but it isn't. You may be able to get a copy through your Political
Science department, if not go directly from the APSA. The University of
Wisconsin provides a limited summary of the "APSA Documentation."
APSA and the "Chicago Style"
offers sample citations and
references drawn from the Style Manual for Political Science,
revised edition, 1993, and from The Chicago Manual of Style, 14th
edition (1993.
(Chicago manual of Style) of documentation.
"Plagiarism: What It is and How to Recognize and Avoid
It"
by Indiana University's a positive guide to writing that
will help you from inadvertently plagiarizing the work of others.