Click on the bolded/underlined text to access handouts that are rich with tips to help you excel academically! Most handouts also include a practice sheet and answer key to assist you in putting what you've learned into action. These handouts are also available in the ARC located in James 121.
Avoiding Plagiarism - This handout will explain reasons for citation, resource credibility, and types of information that need to be cited. A sample “Research Journal” is attached to provide you with a tool to help in recording notes and references accurately.
Parallel Structure - This handout explains formatting within sentences and larger writing parcels, and has some suggestions for correcting problems with parallel structure.
Subject-Verb Agreement - This handout explains tense, number, and person, provides suggestions for “fixing” problems in agreement, and details infinitive verbs and their proper treatment.
Annotated Bibliographies - This handout provides guidelines for composing an annotated bibliography and explains crucial aspects such as the source’s content, usefulness, and topical relevance. Care, accuracy, and intentionality are emphasized and encouraged. A sample “Source/Research Log” is included to help in recording references accurately and avoiding plagiarism.
Comma Usage - This handout details the three primary ways in which commas are used—listing and separating; separating introductory items; and setting off “parenthetical statements”—and gives suggestions for avoiding usage errors.
MLA Style Guide (ARC) - This handout features requirements dealing with general style, quotations, works cited, and types of references. A sample paper is attached to give an example of a MLA-style paper, but if you look closely, you'll notice that this paper also provides step-by-step instructions on how to navigate Microsoft Word in order to format your paper properly!
MLA Style Guide (Annie Gabriel Library - Detailed)
APA Style Guide (ARC) - This handout provides instructions for creating an APA title page, the abstract, general formatting requirements, listing references, quoting and citing, and the School of Behavioral Sciences additional (Turabian) cover page. A sample paper is attached to give an example of an APA-style paper, but if you look closely, you'll notice that this paper also provides step-by-step instructions on how to navigate Microsoft Word in order to format your paper properly!
APA Style Guide (Annie Gabriel Library - Detailed)
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