EFS 698B - STANFORD UNIVERSITY

Advanced Graduate Writing

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Some Useful Links

EFS 698B Support Pages 

USING GOOGLE -- A site under construction to help students use Google as a tool for language support.

ARTICLE SELF-QUIZ DIRECTIONS -- Learn how to use features in MS-Word to make automatic quizzes from papers in your own academic field.
 

Thesis and Dissertation Support 

EFS 698B workshop and links

Thesis and Dissertation website, from a project by Martha Pennington
 

Dictionaries and Related Aids

WWWebster Dictionary. This is Merriam Webster's online dictionary. It automatically links to a thesaurus as well.

Dictionary.com. This is a commercial site with connections to multiple dictionaries, including entries for technical jargon and English style and usage guides. It's free, but you have to look at their ads.

Babylon. Hyperlinked dictionary application that lets you look up any word on a web page, email, Word document, etc. 30-day free trial.
 

Online Grammar Help

Indiana State University Writing Resources--Grammar Help. This site has a review of some basic grammar points along with exercises.

Article Usage. This printable page has a reasonable overview of guidelines for proper use of a, an, and the: form John Kohl, Rensselaer Polytechnic
 

Other Writing Resources

• Information on recognizing and avoiding plagiarism from Indiana University and additional links about plagiarism from the Ohio Program of Intensive English
• University of Wisconsin's Writer's Handbook
• Advice on proofreading (final editing) from Purdue's Online Writing Lab
• Online textbook in English for academic purposes by Andy Gillett from the University of Hertfordshire, UK, including Rhetorical functions in academic writing
• American Psychological Association Guidelines on Sexist Language
• Various styles (MLA, APA, Chicago, and others) for citing online material from Bedford-St. Martin's Press