Here are some websites that may be useful for completing assignments such as papers, bibliographies, annotations, etc.  These sites were developed from "frequently asked questions" from students and experiences in evaluating student work.

The standard/required style manual for the Department of Nursing is the latest edition of the Style Manual of the American Psychological Association.  The fifth edition of the APA Style Manual was published in June 2001.  Check this site to learn about the new edition.  You may also order a copy of the new edition online. 

http://www.apastyle.org

You may be interested in purchases the APA Style Helper 3.0, a computer program to assist you in formatting papers and using APA style.  Information on the link above.

Need help with citing a reference from the World Wide Web???  The latest guidelines from the American Psychological Association are on this site:

http://www.apastyle.org/elecref.html

Need help with writing papers?? Cannot remember rules of grammar?  Writing skills rusty?  Try some of these links:

William Strunk Jr's classic book The Elements of Style, Online:  http://www.bartleby.com/141/

The Educational Technology Center at Kennesaw State University (Georgia) has a webpage of links to various grammar and writing help sites. http://webtech.kennesaw.edu/jcheek4/grammar.htm

Need help with tense and agreement of subject and predicate?  Here's a grammar slammer with rules of grammar and writing. http://englishplus.com/grammar/

Visit the Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University.  Wonderful resource for all students and writers. Website recently redesigned. Sections on APA style, newsletter with writing questions, and the original OWL are found at http://owl.english.purdue.edu/ If you have trouble with site, go to Purdue University homepage http://www.purdue.edu  and search for online writing lab.

This page maintained by Elizabeth N. Stokes, estokes@astate.edu

last updated:  September 5, 2007