Resources

• American Psychological Association (APA) Style & Grammar Guidelines: The Style & Grammar Guidelines on the official APA website provide a searchable supplement to the publication manual and contain tutorials and webinars, handouts and guides, and sample papers to help you learn and apply APA7 style. Frequently used by those in education, management, psychology, health and other social sciences.

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New to APA? Try this APA Tutorial! (From APAStyle)

**NEW!!** Need a template to help you get started with APA formatting? Check out our CSS APA templates! Each one includes instructions for use in Google Docs or MS Word.

Our BASIC template is useful for most undergraduate writing projects and shorter (under 15 pages) essays.

Our ADVANCED template includes help with building appendices and is meant for graduate writers and longer essays.

• Modern Language Association (MLA) Style Center: The official MLA provides free resources on research, writing, and documentation for learning and applying MLA 9th edition formatting and style. Frequently used by those in the humanities, English, history, philosophy, music, and the fine arts.

Citation Help for MLA (CSS LibGuide)

• American Medical Association (AMA) Manual of Style: The official citation style site (fully searchable) of the AMA and its publications. Frequently used by those in the health sciences, including those in the Physician's Assistant, Physical Therapy and Athletic Training programs here at CSS.

Citation Help for AMA (CSS LibGuide)

• Council of Science Editors (CSE) Style: The official "quick guide" to CSE style. Frequently used by those in the natural and physical sciences, biology, chemistry, and beyond.

Citation Help for CSE (CSS LibGuide)

• Transition Words by Category (U of Wisconsin Madison): Use this guide to help you logically and strategically vary your use of transition words in all kinds of writing!

• The Paramedic Method (Antioch University Writing Center): The "Paramedic Method" is a classic strategy for making your writing more concise, clear, and active. Practice the steps here a few times, and you'll soon notice, and subsequently avoid, some of your wordier writing habits. 

• Avoiding Plagiarism (CSS LibGuide): This guide created by the CSS Library provides tips for faculty and students about how to avoid plagiarism including information on Turnitin.

• How to Avoid Plagiarism (University of Maryland Global Campus): This page offers a comprehensive tutorial on how to avoid plagiarism; how to quote, paraphrase, and summarize; and how to source, introduce, cite, and reference materials.

• Generative AI in Academic Writing (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill): This page addresses how the ethical use of chat AI technology depends on the context in which it is being used and the expectations of the individuals or organizations involved. It is important for users to understand the potential implications of using chat AI technology and to approach its use with honesty and integrity.

• Strategies for Essay Writing (Harvard University): This resource includes guides to various aspects of writing academic essays. It is process-oriented, meaning that it leads student writers through the steps of reading the assignment prompt, generating ideas, outlining, and so on.

• Tips & Tools (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill): This website provides thorough handouts and videos about general writing concerns, citation style, sentence-level concerns, specific writing assignments and contexts, and writing for specific fields.

• Group Writing Projects (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill): A guide to working on group writing projects that includes some important planning questions and helpful examples.

• Writer's Handbook (University of Wisconsin): This site hosts a broad range of guides to aspects of the writing process, argumentation, and genres.

• Writing Advice (University of Toronto at Scarborough): These guides offer advice on planning a paper, conducting research, using sources, and revising. You will also find information about writing for specific disciplines, such as history or science.

• Writing Center Resources (University of Texas at Austin): This resource offers a long list of online handouts to aid students during the writing process.

• Grammar Bytes! This humorous site features an exhaustive list of definitions, examples, and grammatical terms with both interactive and printable exercises and handouts to develop, maintain, and practice your grammar knowledge.

• Guide to Grammar (Capital Community College Foundation): This resource index addresses a variety of grammar concerns. It also provides access to quizzes, PowerPoint presentations, and other materials concerning grammar.

• Grammar Girl: Grammar Girl is an online resource that provides grammar tips of the day and podcasts of grammar discussions to stream or download. This is a helpful site when you have a specific grammar question such as “affect vs. effect,” “who vs. whom,” or “lay vs. lie.”

• Grammarly: This site contains detailed, example-rich guides about grammar, punctuation, and other common writing concerns. Students can also request a license for Grammarly Premium by completing the Academic Access & Support Tech Check Out Google Form. NOTE: various elements of Grammarly use AI features and predictive text that may or may not violate faculty policies on the use of AI. Please check with your instructors!

• Library of the College of St. Scholastica: The campus library and librarians are probably your best resource for any stage of any research project — from articulating a topic to conducting preliminary research to refining your search terms.  

• Getting Started with Research (CSS LibGuide): This LibGuide contains links and lots of information on how to find resources for research, evaluate, and ethically cite them, as well as writing and citation help.

• Information Literacy (CSS LibGuide): This LibGuide explains concepts incorporated into what information literacy is and provides resources to support its teaching and learning.