GUIDE TO
RESEARCH AND WRITING

The Department of English at West Virginia University.

Writing Help

  • On-line writing centers from across the country
  • Guides for citing sources (APA, MLA, electronic citations)
  • Answers to questions about parts of speech
  • Answers to questions about format (such as resume formats)


    • Computing Help

    • WVU E-mail addresses and resources
    • A guide to Eudora
    • Tips for mailing documents by using Netscape 2.0 (or above)
    • General information about the WWW and discussion lists
    • Tools for creating your own web pages.


    Search Tools

    • Ways to surf the Web (Meta-Crawler, InfoSeek, Yahoo, etc.)
    • Links to on-line libraries (including WVU's Mountainlynx)
    • On-line reference books (such as dictionaries)
    • On-line newspapers and magazines.


    Pages designed by Laura Brady, Feb. 1997