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Below you will find assistance with Frequently Asked Questions, Writing, Researching, Study Skills, and the Internet. Still can't find what you are looking for? Try the Site Map, an A to Z listing of most everything on this site. |
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS Click here for frequently and not-so-frequently asked questions.
- Citing
the World Wide Web in Style Guides for American Psychological Association
(APA), Modern Language Association (MLA), Chicago, and Turabian.
- Locating
documentation guidelines in the Publication Manual of the American
Psychological Association
(how to use the book).
- Guide
to Referencing Mental Measurements Yearbook. (See also the guide
to using the MMY, in the Researching section, below.)
- The
Challenge of Plagiarism Understanding plagiarism and how to avoid
committing it.
- Writing
Assistance Troy University Writing Center and other resources.
- A
Guide to Writing Resources Identifying print and online sources
to improve writing, grammar, etc.
- Proofreading a College Paper: Guidelines and Checklist
- Evaluating
Journals Some information to help you understand the meaning of
the terms peer-reviewed, refereed, scholarly and academic when referring
to magazines, journals, etc.
- NetLibrary
A guide to Library's largest eBook resource.
- Limit
by Journal This tutorial demonstrates how to limit searches within
a journal database to selected, multiple journal titles.
- Search
Engines Tutorial Learn more about using Internet search engines.
- Using
Mental Measurements Yearbook and Tests in Print. (See also the citation
guide in the Writing section, above.)
- Guides
to Library resources, arranged by degree/major:
Major/Degree (For your convenience, the following guides are also listed on the Bibliographies page)
- Business, Management, Political Science, Public Administration. Library Presentation.
- Counseling
and Psychology. Library Presentation.
- List of Counseling and Psychology Journals Available from Databases (Supplemental guide for counseling and psychology)
- Computer Science. Library Presentation.
- Criminal Justice. Library Presentation.
- Education. Library Presentation.
- General Education. Library Presentation.
- History.
Library Presentation.
- Library of Congress classification for History (Supplemental guide for users desiring to search the Library Catalog by call number [as detailed in the presentation, above])
- International Relations. Library Presentation.
- Social Science. Library Presentation.
- Sport and Fitness Management. Library Presentation.
-
Productive Study Techniques: Learning How to Learn by Dr. Lamon H. Small
The following guides were not written by the Troy Library staff, but are select, outside resources.
- ILC Glossary of Internet Terms
- Internet Companion, 2nd edition
- Newbies Anonymous: A Newcomer's Guide to the Internet
- TONIC: The Online Netskills Interactive Course
- World Wide Web Unleashed
This page updated, spelling and links checked : Wednesday, January 30, 2008
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