| Contact | |
|---|---|
| Emily Mitchell | |
| Phone: 231-591-3730 | |
| Office: FLITE 140F | |
| Stacy Anderson | |
| Phone: 231-591-3635 | |
| Office: FLITE 140C | |
ENGL 321 - Nelson
Welcome to FLITE. These resources should help with your assignments.
Finding articles
Communication & Mass Media Complete - A great database for finding articles about media issues, including media bias!
OWL - Purdue University Online Writing Lab and Ferris Writing Center
The Online Writing Lab at Purdue (http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/) is an invaluable reference for writing research papers. Covering everything from creating a thesis statement and coping with writer's block to formatting citations and the principles of academic writing, this comprehensive web site is a resource tool for every paper you'll ever need to write.
The Ferris Writing Center offers free assistance to all FSU students, faculty, and staff. In addition to tutoring help on-campus, the Writing Center will do tutoring online, including reviews of research papers and citation consultations. Don't pass up this opportunity for help.
Adding images to your paper
New! Screenshots and MS Office graphs - This handout gives step-by-step instructions for how to copy an image off your screen/out of a PDF when you can't just right click + copy. It also includes making charts/graphs in Word and Excel. Instructions are provided for both Macs and PCs.
Make sure that you cite each and every image. Directions for citing images can be found in the Citing Sources section of this page.
Citing Sources
New! Citing images in APA style -- FLITE cheat sheet
Citation Style Guide: APA (PDF)
Copies of the full Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association can be found on Floor 1 of the library near the Oval Information Desk.
APA Style Guide - OWL Writing Lab
Information about tables, graphs, and statistic figures in APA - OWL APA Style Guide
Citations - a FLITE guide
A guide to understanding citations, and a link to different online citation management tools that can help you input your sources and create your bibliographies.
Contact: Emily Mitchell / Email / Phone: 231-591-3625 / Office: FLITE 140F
Make an appointment for a research consultation with a librarian - one-on-one personal library help.
Don't forget, you are welcome to come to the Oval Information Desk and ask for help any time. You can also call us 231-591-3602 or chat with us.
Last update: November 3, 2011