Writing Resources

This page contains some links on writing for students and researchers:

• General guides
• Collected Advice on Research and Writing, Computer Science Department at CMU
• Guidelines for Writing Papers, Computer Science Department at North Carolina State University
• Writing Resources, Emory University
• Bartelby.com, Free Books Online -- Encyclopedia, dictionaries, thesauri and hundreds more
• Style
• The Elements of Style, William Strunk, Jr. One must first know the rules to break them. Written in 1918, but still valid.
• Plagiarism
• Plagiarism: What It is and How to Recognize and Avoid It, Indiana University
• The Writing Process
• Writing a paper requires that you expend two different types of energy: CREATIVE and CRITICAL. The University of Texas

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