Popular Writing Resources

OWL

The Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University offers grammar, style, and citation help with a searchable online database.

Hodges’ Harbrace handbook / Cheryl Glenn 16th ed.

Most current edition in Reference

Agvet Reference PE1112 .H6 2007

Style Guides: guidelines for bibliography and paper submission

Each journal publisher requires specific formatting for papers, images, appendices, and bibliographies.

Check the journal bibliographic page or website for the required style.

Popular Styles

Publication manual of the American Psychological Association.

Agvet Reference: BF76.7 .P83 2001

MLA handbook for writers of research papers / Joseph Gibaldi.

Most current in reference

Agvet Reference: LB2369 .G53 2003

The essentials of MLA style : a guide to documentation for writers of research papers, with an appendix on APA style / Joseph F. Trimmer.

Agvet Reference: PN147 .T75 1998

The ACS style guide

Most current edition in Reference

Agvet Reference: QD8.5 .A25 2006

Additional Writing Resources

How to write and publish a scientific paper / Robert A. Day and Barbara Gastel.

Agvet Stacks: T11 .D33 2006

Grant writing for dummies / by Bev Browning.

Agvet Stacks: HG177.5 .U6 B76 2005

Guide to writing empirical papers, theses, and dissertations

Agvet Stacks: T11 .L53 2001

Writing : grammar, usage, and style

Agvet Stacks: PE1408 .E3555 2001

Technical writing for dummies / by Sheryl Lindsell-Roberts.

Agvet Stacks: QE48.85 .G44 1995

Consult Hodges Reference pages for more information

http://www.lib.utk.edu/refs/style.html