• How to Research (McBride) - Required Reading

  • Academic Essay Guidelines

  • Plagiarism (McBride)

  • Commonly Recognized Research Paper Conventions  

  • Purdue OWL: Writing a Research Paper

  • A Guide for Writing Research Papers using MLA

  • How to Organize a Research Paper and Document it with MLA

  • MLA Documentation Overview (McBride) - Required Reading

  • MLA Works Cited Example (McBride) - Required Reading

  • MLA Practice Exam (McBride)

  • MLA Finals Review (McBride)

  • A Guide to Research: MLA

  • Documenting WWW Sources (MLA)

  • MLA Paper Template (*.doc file) (McBride)

  • Take Home Documentation and Plagiarism Exam (McBride)

  • Argument (UNC Writing Center) - Required Reading

  • Academic Essay Guidelines

  • Expressing Academic Voice

  • Essay Outline Form (McBride)

  • What is Rhetorical Analysis?

  • Three Argumentative Appeals

  • Writing an Argumentative Essay

  • Paradigm's Writing Argumentative Essays

  • Argumentation and Critical Thinking Tutorial

  • Establishing Arguments

  • UniLearning: Writing Argument

  • Essays and Arguments: A Handbook on Writing Argumentative and Interpretive Essays by Ian Johnston

  • Maricopa

  • Public Agenda (Facts and Analysis of Current Issues)

  • Rand: Objective Analysis of Current Issues

  • McGraw-Hill Bioethics Case Studies

  • Internet Public Library Current Events

  • Multnomah School's Social Issues Page

  • MSNBC

  • Newsweek Education Resources Archive

  • US News and World Report Online

  • Debatabase

  • National Press Club

  • Topix

  • BNA Web Watch

  • Why Files: Science Behind the News

  • Current Events, Issues, and Controversies

  • FindArticles: Current Events

  • Current Events Tracker (must subscribe to use)