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On-line reference materials

Colorado State University OnLine Writing Center Reference Materials

On-line style guides

The Elements of Style, Strunk, William, 1918.

Common Errors in English, Paul Brians, Ph.D., Washington State University. 1997. (Jan 19, 1999).

Guides to evaluating web resources:

Evaluating Web Sites for Educational Uses: Bibliography and Checklist, Institute for Academic Technology, 1997

Bibliography on Evaluating Internet Resources, Nicole Auer, Library Instruction Coordinator, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Fair use guidelines

Fair Use Guidelines Material Collected by Phillips Memorial Library Acquisitions Department

Crash Course in Copyright, Georgia Harper, University of Texas System, 4/97

Guides to electronic citations:

MLA Style - Citing Sources from the World Wide Web

Beyond the MLA Handbook: Documenting Electronic Sources on the Internet, Harnack, A. and Kleppinger, G.

Provides links to various resources considering the citation of electronic resources. A sample citation, excerpted from Janice Walker's "MLA-Style Citations of Electronic Sources", is as follows:

2. World Wide Web (WWW) Sites

To cite files available for viewing/downloading via the World Wide Web by means of Lynx, Netscape, or other Web browsers, provide the following information:

the author's name (if known)
the full title of the document in quotation marks
the title of the complete work if applicable in italics
the date of publication or last revision (if available)
the full http address (URL) enclosed within angle brackets
the date of visit in parentheses

Model:
Burka, Lauren P.  "A Hypertext History of Multi-User Dimensions." MUD History. 1993. 
<http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/1pb/mud-history.html> (5 Dec. 1994).