Useful Websites
Note: We highly recommend consulting with the print style guides to answer questions regarding the documentation of sources and formatting of manuscripts--those texts are the most comprehensive and definitive.
Documentation Help:
- Purdue OWL - APA
- Purdue OWL - MLA
- Chicago Manual of Style
- Diana Hacker - APA, MLA, Chicago, CSE
- APA Guide to Citing Electronic Sources
- GVSU Library Guides: Citing Sources (includes help with many styles of documentation)
- College student's guide to citation styles (sciences, humanities, social sciences)
Grammar and Mechanics Assistance:
Discipline-Specific Writing Guides:
- Purdue OWL: Professional, Technical, & Job Search Writing Resources
- GVSU Writing Department's Creative Writing Resources
- Purdue OWL's Subject-Specific Resources (Technical/Professional Writing, Creative Writing, Journalism, the Social Sciences, Engineering, Writing about Literature, and Medical Writing)
- LabWrite (With funds from the National Science Foundation, LabWrite walks through the process of conducting labs & lab reports)
- GVSU Library Guides to Research by Subject
Publishing Opportunities:
- GVSU's Office of Undergraduate Research (maintains a web page of local publication & presentations venues for undergraduates)
- Fishladder (GVSU's undergraduate literary magazine)
- Vinette (An online student publication at GVSU that celebrates good writing and good design)
- Grand Valley Journal of History (a student-run journal that publishes scholarship in history).
- Wake: Great Lakes Thought & Culture (edited at GVSU, this journal publishes articles and creative writing that "evokes the broad culture of the Great Lakes")
- In Our Own Words (Journal published by the GVSU Women's Center)
- Grand Valley Lanthorn (GVSU's student newspaper)
- GVSU's Writing Department (maintains information about how to submit to literary journals, along with a long list of publication outlets)
Page last modified July 16, 2012
