University of Wisconsin
University of Wisconsin: Writing Center: Academic and Professional Writing
The section on Common Types of Writing Assignments is a particularly helpful piece of this site. Learn how to approach a wide variety of writing tasks from lab reports to literary reviews. Then use the rest of the site to learn how to...
Boise State University
Paradigm Online Writing Assistant
This online writing assistance offers help in the writing process, grammar and mechanics, usage, and four different types of essays, as well as help on deciding what and how to document.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Grammar/writing Ii: Introduction
This is an introduction to a Grammar and Writing unit. It focuses on a review of dependent and independent clauses, writing concise sentences, avoiding passive voice, formatting writing assignments, documenting sources using MLA...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Literature Course Overview: Works Cited Page
This lesson focuses on how to do a Works Cited Page in MLA format. It provides links to an MLA Works Cited Page handout and a rubric. It explains the format, offers a puzzle with the format rules, and provides an assignment for students...
The Write Place
Literacy Education Online
Literacy Education Online (or LEO) is a great place to start if you need help with your writing. The homepage is organized around kinds of problems or questions you might have concerning your writing. Find your problem, click on the...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Documenting Sources and Writing a Bibliography/works Cited
This lesson focuses on documenting research sources and writing a bibliography or Works Cited page. It discusses when and how to document your sources using MLA style. W.9-10.8 Sources, L.9-10.3a Standard Format
SUNY Empire State College
Empire State College: Documenting Sources
Here's a basic guide to documentation -- more of the why and what and when, than the actual format.
Cambridge Rindge & Latin School
Cambridge Rindge & Latin School: Citing Sources: Parenthetical Documentation
An excellent tip sheet on how to document sources while writing and creating a research paper. Includes in-depth information and examples.
Cambridge Rindge & Latin School
Cambridge Rindge & Latin School: Making a Works Cited
An excellent tip sheet on how to write and develop a works cited and documentation list for a research paper. Includes in-depth information and examples.
Other
University of Hong Kong: Identifying & Avoiding Plagiarism
This interactive exercise allows students to judge for themselves what is plagiarized and what is not. Could be used independently or as a class activity.
Colorado State University
Colorado State University: Writing @ Csu Writing Guides
This is a fairly sophisticated series of writing guides. It assumes that users already have a solid grasp of spelling, grammar and mechanics, so it focuses more on organization and types of presentation than on more basic skills....
Cambridge Rindge & Latin School
Cambridge Rindge & Latin School: Making Source Cards
A great resource for putting together all of a student's possible sources onto note cards for later using in citing.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Using Modern Language Association (Mla) Style
This lesson focuses on using Modern Language Association (MLA) Style including the major components of a research paper written using MLA style, reasons to use MLA Style, formatting an MLA paper, general MLA guidelines, a comparison of...
Library of Congress
Loc: How to Cite Digitized Primary Sources
Learn from the Library of Congress how to correctly cite the many electronic resources available in their collection. Films, legal documents, photographs, maps, sound recordings and other unusual cases are covered. Be sure you click on...
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Annotated Bibliographies
This handout defines annotated bibliographies and explains the parts including summary, assessment, and reflection. It also discusses why one should do an annotated bibliography and provides links to APA and MLA formats.
PBS
Pbs News Hour Extra: Writing History: From Students to Scholars Lesson Plan
Recent incidents of plagiarism, or suspected plagiarism by former academics and by news reporters, make this a hot topic. This lesson, based on a NewsHour story on the topic could lead to lively discussion and inquiry in the classroom. A...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Mla Format: Footnotes and Endnotes
This tutorial explains the purpose and format for footnotes and endnotes using the MLA style. It is provided in text and audio. [2:24]
SMART Technologies
Smart: Creating a Works Cited
The intended learning outcomes are to identify the basic elements of a citation, and to understand that the elements of a citation vary with the format of the source cited (e.g. book v. magazine article v. online resource), and to know...