Report Writing
- A+ Research & Writing
Help for everything from research to the final editing. Organized by subject, with links to other sites, from the Internet Public Library.
- Create a Graph
Easy online tool for making graphs and charts.
- OWL: Online Wriring Lab: Handouts: Research and Documenting Sources
Links, handouts, and exercises about research skills and writing papers. Includes a nice A Step-by-Step Procedure guide for paper writing.
- OWLS: Online Workshops for Library Skills
Although some of the information is specific to the hosting library, there is also good general material on research, finding data online, evaluating sources, and copyright and plagiarism.
- Primary Sources on the Web
What primary sources are, how to find them on the web, how to evaluate them, and how to cite them properly.
- A Research Guide for Students
Detailed guide with lots of links "to provide all the necessary tools for students to conduct research and to present their findings."
- Research & Writing: Step by Step
"Before you can start writing, you have to explore the subject to find a topic, locate relevant information, analyze the issues and organize your arguments." Once that's done, this site gives hints for actually writing the paper as well.
- The Student Research Manual
Very nice online guide from the Fairfield Public School System in Connecticut.
- Citation Makers :
- Ten Common Misunderstandings about Fair Use
From the Media Education Lab at Temple University.
- Avoiding Plagiarism
Clear advice for the student researcher on recognizing plagiarism and giving a clear checklist for avoiding it.
- Bibliography Worksheet
Right-click and follow your browser's instructions to download a text-format version of our worksheet for keeping track of bibliography information. (Can be read in any word-processor.)
- Copyright Guidelines
Short list showing "the guidelines for including work that is done by other people in your own presentation, report, or movie."
- The Copyright Website
"This site endeavors to provide real world, practical and relevant copyright information...".
- Crash Course in Copyright
Information, links, tutorial, and discussions of copyright law and issues.
- Creative Commons: Sharing Creative Works
"A new comic about Creative Commons. It aims to explain the basics of CC licensing as simply as possible to a general audience."
- Get Creative
Video from Creative Commons about copyright, fair use, and creative commons licenses both for users and producers.
- MLA Citation Style
Shows how to cite sources with examples showing the different parts of a citation - author, publisher, date, etc - in differing colors for easy comprehension and comparison.
- OWL: MLA Formatting and Style Guide
Explanation of MLA format from Purdue University's Writing Lab.
- Plagiarism Court: You Be The Judge
Interactive tutorial about plagiarism and proper citation.
- Plagiarism Q&A
Clear definitions and examples of what plagiarism is, how to summarize and cite sources, and links to other sites on the topic.
- Podcasting Legal Guide
Information on copyright for podcasters, including information on 'podsafe' sources of music and various options for licensing your own podcasts.
- U.S. Copyright Office
Official source for information about copyright laws, registration, fair use, and related topics.
- You Quote It, You Note It
Short interactive tutorial about what plagiarism is and how to avoid it.
