Writing college papers?

Citations or references for nursing classes are usually in APA form (american psychological association). sociology, psych classes usually are also. English classes usually use MLA (I can't remember what it stands for). Make sure you ask your instructor what form they expect. If there was one thing I learned by the end of nursing school, it was APA format! If they require APA, you might want to consider getting the reference book.

In terms of what should be cited? Anything that is not your own idea or your own words. You need to credit the original author for the work. As long as you cite the source, it is not plagarism.

If you have to write in APA try out the website PERRLA.com. It has been a great help to me in my BSN program.

Here is a site that I have used to write all of my papers the past two semesters. It shows APA and MLA.

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/

Hello everyone! I was just wondering a few things about writing college papers. I took all my Gordon Rule classes during high school through a dual enrollment program with the local community college so I shouldn't have to write all that many papers, but I'm just curious.

1) Does anyone have any good websites on how to cite things properly in a college paper? That would be much appreciated!

2) Does anyone have any good websites about what things should be cited? I don't plagarize I just want to be sure I cite everything necessary.

3) Can anyone recommend a good book or website on basic grammar rules? I'm a pretty good writer when it comes to research papers and whatnot but I'm afraid my grammar skills are not where they should be.

Thanks a ton in adavnce!

Try NOODLETOOLS it helped me in 102

I'm back in school now and have had at least one paper to write for each class I've taken; all have required APA format and the instructors are pretty strict about it. At first, it took me longer to format my papers correctly than it did to write them. Several people suggested to me that I buy a program that will do this for you, which I did and I wish I had known I could do that earlier! I downloaded a program from styleease.com and it formats everything, inserts citations, does your reference page as you insert citations... I love it! There are several different companies who offer this as a download or a disc. I paid about $30 and it was worth every penny.

Here is a site that I have used to write all of my papers the past two semesters. It shows APA and MLA.

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/

This is by far the best site I've found for citing material. I use it quite often.

My school subscribes to a service called Noodlebib. It will actually write your works cited page for you. Look on your school library website under reference help and see if they have this service.