Writing Resources

Click the link provided to download the APA Template 6th Edition as a Microsoft Word document. Save the document to your PC or thumb drive.

This template complies with all the margin and heading requirements for an APA research paper so you don’t have to establish those items in your paper. Each time you open the template file, perform a Save As to save the file under a new name and preserve the template for future use.

From Cornell University's Olin & Uris Libraries, an in-depth explanation aimed at an academic audience on analyzing information sources.

Here you'll find advice on how to evaluate internet (and other) sources--and learn the ways you can tell whether or not a source is trustworthy.

Learn about academic integrity and how to avoid plagiarism.

Free online dictionary, thesaurus, spanish-english and medical dictionaries, audio pronunciations, Word of the Day, word games, and many more high-quality Merriam-Webster language resources.

A popular online writing resource based at Purdue University, with plenty of helpful information about writing well, avoiding plagiarism, and help for APA citation styles.

If English is not your native language, you may be interested in these ESL (English as a Second Language) resources. You can read about what kind of writing is expected in North American colleges, and find material on the basics of working and networking at U.S. universities.

Dictionary definitions and example sentences, related words, synonyms, antonyms, images of words, statistics about words, audio pronunciations.

Free online dictionary with definitions written at three levels, synonyms, antonyms, examples, images, audio, semantic relations index. Look up any word. Create your own glossaries and quizzes. Use special tools to create and solve crosswords and solve anagrams. Reverse dictionary search in definitions, examples, synonyms and other fields.