Department of Political Science Writing Resources
Here are some useful sites and tips for writing your term paper:
Citation & Style Guides
- Elements of Style - the classic manual for writing classic papers.
- Brief Citation Guide for Internet Resources - focus on history and the humanities, including political science.
- Citing Electronic Resources - links to various ways to cite Internet-related sources from the Internet Public Library.
Grammar and Writing
- Online English Grammar - basic English grammar tips.
- Online Writing Assistant - tips on writing essays, documenting resources, and editing.
- "Rationally Persuasive Writing is Like House Painting: It's All in the Preliminaries" - Joel J. Kassiola.
Reference Materials
- Virtual Reference Desk - dictionaries, phone books, maps and government documents.
- Research-It
- Scholes Library Electronic Reference Desk
- Bartlett's Familiar Quotations - passages, phrases and proverbs traced to their sources; includes search engine
- Researchpaper.com - large collection of topics, ideas, and assistance for school related research projects.
- Roget's Thesaurus
