Websites
The Purdue Online Writing Lab
This is a great resource for learning about both format and style for APA and MLA.

Strunk's Elements of Style
This is an online version of the classic work Elements of Style. It contains the basic rules of style and composition. It also includes a section about commonly misused expressions.

Writing Strategies
The website provides suggestions for a number of compositional styles.

University of Wisconsin Writing Center Handbook
This site gives a number of great writing tips. Please note that it recommends making an appointment with the Writing Center. Appointments for writing help are available at CSUF as well. Visit The Writing Center for more information.

Sample Literature Review
This sample paper has extensive comments about the writing process and uses APA conventions.

CSUF Student Guide to Avoiding Plagiarism
This site gives examples of plagiarism, both intentional and unintentional, and how to avoid
making this costly mistake.

Books
Reading and Writing in the Academic Community
This work provides help for a number of academic writing styles including: essays, evaluation, analysis, and writing research papers. It also covers the basics of paraphrasing, summarizing, and quoting.

Writing the Modern Research Paper
This manual covers all of the basics of writing a research paper from the initial planning stages through manuscript preparation.

Writing for Academic Success
This book is geared toward graduate students. It has suggestions for different types of academic writing.