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Rules and Conventions of Academic Writing
If you want to do well in your assignments you need to get the basics right. If you don't get these "little" things correct, then the perceived integrity of your work as a whole is at risk. Always proof read your work to remove the surface glitches so that the value of your hard work shines through.
SourceAid Citation Builder
Create and manage MLA, APA, CMS, and CSE bibliographies, footnotes, and endnotes.
StudentABC
Provides an automatic bibliography builder for students learning and
making bibliographies. The only tool online that automatically
retrieves data from websites and converts it to MLA format and APA
format citations.
StyleEase
StyleEase software easily and automatically formats papers and references according to APA format, MLA format, and Chicago/Turabian styles
Tada - How to write a thesis or dissertation with proven success
TA-DA! - Thesis and Dissertation Accomplished! - Help writing your thesis or dissertation with proven methods to succeed. The TA-DA! program gets you through.
The Internet Grammar of English
The Internet Grammar of English is an online course in English grammar written primarily for university undergraduates. However, we hope that it will be useful to everyone who is interested in the English language. IGE does not assume any prior knowledge of grammar.
Twilocity
This site's purpose is to help you write academic papers and college essays by discovering the erroneous tendencies that creep into your writing. You cannot see your tendencies without someone pointing out them out to you. When you know these tendencies before submitting the document for a grade, you have improved your chance to maximize the grade. The Twilocity review will improve the grade by at least the next level (i.e. from an A- to an A).
University English
A site for students studying English for Academic Purposes with study tips and great links.
University Metrics
The G-factor International University Ranking measures the importance of universities as a function of the number of links to their websites from the websites of other leading international universities.
Vocabulary Exercises for the Academic Word List
This is a free website which allows students to review vocabulary contained within the Academic Word List. It consists of 150 gap-fill exercises, so students have a chance to encounter each word three times in differing contexts. The exercises have been generated using Hot Potatoes, so the students can get immediate feedback.
What is an Academic Paper?
One of the first things you'll discover as a college student is that writing in college is different from writing in high school. Certainly a lot of what your high school writing teachers taught you will be useful to you as you approach writing in college: you will want to write clearly, to have an interesting and arguable thesis, to construct paragraphs that are coherent and focused, and so on.
World Universities' ranking on the Web
World Universities' ranking on the Web- an observatory of science, technology and scholar communication on the Web
Writing Center Handouts
Looking for some straightforward and useful advice about writing? You've come to the right place.
Writing for Change
Established in 1997, fahamu seeks to strengthen the capacity of nongovernmental organisations in the third world through exploiting the potentials of information and communications technologies.
Zotero
Zotero is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. It lives right where you do your work in the web browser itself.


