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Columbia Guide to Online Style :: http://cup.columbia.edu/cgos/idx_basic.html

This site provides instructions on how to write a citation for an online source, including the Web, email, discussion lists, and newsgroups, synchronous communication sites, online reference sources, electronic publications, and online databases.

The Concord Review :: http://www.tcr.org/

The Concord Review is a journal which publishes exemplary essays by high school students studying history. Some of the best essays from the printed journal are published on this website. Also, if you are a writer interested in history, TCR encourages submissions and awards several monetary prizes each year.

Gender Fair Language :: http://www.wecc.rpi.edu/genderfair.html

As culture changes, so does language. Reflect our changing ideas in your writing with gender fair language! This site provides an overview of the concept, as well as helpful examples for making your writing clear and direct regarding gender.

IPL TeenSpace: A+ Research & Writing :: http://www.ipl.org/div/teen/aplus/

The IPL's original guide to researching and writing that paper you're dreading. Many of the resources that this guide points to are included in this section of TeenSpace, but this is a great resource for an in-depth look at the research process. The guide is pretty text heavy, but if you are looking for answers, they're probably in here!

Process of Doing a Research Paper :: http://depts.gallaudet.edu/englishworks/writing/process.html

This page provides a good overview of the report-writing process. Text and simple, helpful graphics, as well as links to other parts of the site, guide you through. This site is especially good for students who know the basics and are looking to refresh their knowledge.

Researching and Organizing Your Paper: The Note Card System :: http://depts.gallaudet.edu/englishworks/writing/notecard.html

This site is helpful when you start organizing your research to work on your paper. The method described is particularly helpful if you don't like making formal outlines and is extremely flexible and easy to change, update, and rework as you go along with your research. The site has helpful graphics and provides links to related resources from the same organization.

Searchpath @ The University of Michigan :: http://www.lib.umich.edu/ugl/searchpath/index.html

This tutorial provides a great overview of the research process. Learn how to begin your search, do effective searching online and in database, where to find certain types of information, and how to document it. Some of the site is focused on the undergraduate library at UM, where the tutorial is created, but you can apply what you learn here to any database, catalog, or search engine. Includes a fast-paced game to learn the differences between Internet and library searching! To see the full tutorial, you'll need Macromedia Flash.

TILT :: http://tilt.lib.utsystem.edu/

This tutorial was produced by the University of Texas Libraries to help students understand the research process. Click your way through interactive modules to learn about information literacy and kinds of sources - books, journals, web pages, etc. - and what kind of information you can expect to get from them. The tutorial also lets you choose a general topic of your interest and molds its examples to that interest. This is the place to go to get a good handle on how to do good, time-effective research and write a great paper! For the full experience, you'll need Shockwave Flash, but an equally helpful HTML versions are available.

The UVic Writers Guide :: http://web.uvic.ca/wguide/Pages/StartHere.html

This site may be simple and old by the web's standards, but it still provides excellent detailed information on all kinds of paper writing issues. Want more info on a kind of essay you have to write? Need tips on developing a thesis? Want pointers on constructing good sentences and paragraphs? Need to remember what "allegory" means? This easy-to-navigate site has all this information and more.

Writing a Research Paper :: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/workshops/hypertext/ResearchW/index.html

Brought to you by the granddaddy of all online writing tutorials, Purdue University's Online Writing Lab (OWL), this site breaks the parts and process of writing a research paper into manageable pieces.

Writing Guides: Writing Processes :: http://writing.colostate.edu/guides/

This site likes to call this page on the writing process an "online textbook," but that simplifies a cool interactive interface helping you get to the facts you need quickly. This particular page has sections on writing situations like purpose and focus; developing issues and ideas; and general issues like peer review, response papers, and group work. There is also a section on writing context, a great resource for presenting your paper online or on the printed page.