Victorian Women Writers Fall 2001

Tools

InfoHawk (University of Iowa's Online Public Catalog)

Oxford English Dictionary (UI access only)

MLA style for documenting electronic sources

Dictionaries

• Miriam-Webster Online

 Encyclopedias

• Encyclopedia Britannica Online

Handbooks, Glossaries, Aids, Almanacs, etc.

• How to Write a Paper by Dennis Baron
• Glossary of Literary Terms and A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices by Robert Harris
• Glossary of Literary Theory by Greig E. Henderson and Christopher Brown

Style Manuals

• A Guide for Writing Research Papers
  (Based on Modern Language Association Documentation)
• Elements of Style by William Strunk
• Bibliographic Forms
  (A three page handout in PDF format based on Turabian and ideal for undergraduate papers as well as most graduate course papers.)
• Guide to Electronic Citation Styles
  (Created by Karla Tonella at the University of Iowa)