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  Style Guides
  MLA Style - Capital Community College's excellent guide to the MLA approach to research papers.
Internet Public Library's Guide to citing electronic resources.
Guide to Grammar and Writing - Comprehensive guide to the use of the English language, including sentence parts, punctuation marks, plurals, possessives, and spellings.
APA Style Essentials – for a good overview of the APA Style.
APA Electronic Formats -for great examples of electronic formats.
Online! Citation Styles - Offers: web site, e-mail, listserv, newsgroup, Telnet, FTP and other online formats in the styles of MLA, APA, Chicago and more.
Duke University Libraries' Guide to Citing Sources
Sources: Their Use and Acknowledgement - A good overall style handbook (from Dartmouth College) to consult when writing papers.
William Strunk Jr.'s Elements of Style


 
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