Excellent help is available!  

• Purdue Online Writing Lab - from Purdue University.  Explore the sections in this lab:
  • The Writing Process provides a guide to creating a thesis statement, developing an outline.
  • Essay Writing explains the genres of essay writing - Exposition, Description, Narration, Argumentation.

  • Research and Citation Resources provides guides to the main citation styles.

• Search Carleton Discovery - Primo VE by Subject under Academic Writing.

• Help is available on campus at Writing Services.

Others aids for writing include

Avoid Plagiarism

• Check out the Plagiarism.org website for more information
• Academic Integrity @ Carleton University
• Take the Academic Integrity Quiz based on the rules of citation

Writing aids

• Write a book review (Queen's University)
• The Literature Review: A Few Tips on Conducting It - Univeristy of Toronto
• Writing an annotated bibliography

Citation Help

• The SBL handbook of style : for ancient Near Eastern, Biblical, and early Christian studies / Patrick H. Alexander, et. al. (1999) PN147.S276 1999
• Chicago Manual of Style Online / University of Chicago Press (2017) 17th ed.
• Citation Management - Information & workshops about free citation/document management systems available.
• Cite Your Sources   General guide pointing to resources on all the main styles.  

Useful Titles

• The Craft of Research / Wayne C. Booth, et. al. (2016) Q180.55.M4 B66 2016 [earlier editions may be borrowed]
• Fit to print: the Canadian student's guide to essay writing / Joanne Buckley (2013) RSV LB2369.B83 2013 (8th ed.) (7th ed.)
• Stylish academic writing / Helen Sword (2012)
• Writing for academic success / Gail Craswell, Megan Poore (2012) RSV LB2369.C73 2012