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What Academic Honesty means at UMass
From the Ad Hoc Committee on Student Plagiarism of the Faculty Senate

Avoiding Plagiarism
Quick tips

Understanding what plagiarism is
Guides and tutorials 

Choosing a Topic

Search Tips

GSA Style Guide

College of Wooster Style Guide
This is basically the same as the GSA Style Guide, but has examples.

Chicago Manual of Style
The newly updated online version. From off-campus, you'll need your NetID.

Writing Scientific Manuscripts: A Guide for Undergraduates
Designed as a resource for undergraduate science researchers who are getting ready to write up their research for a journal. Sections on article structure, and on figures, tables, equations and references.

AGU Reference Style

Scientific writing: a reader and writer's guide, Jean-Luc LeBrun
This book focuses on writing style, as well as the more technical aspects of scientific writing.

The Elements of Style, by William Strunk, Jr. and E.B. White (aka Strunk and White)
This classic work will be helpful for any serious writing.

And remember, RefWorks can format your citations in almost any style.

"No stile of writing is so delightful as that which is all pith, which never omits a necessary word, nor uses an unnecessary one."