The resources on the following pages have been collected here to help faculty and students utilize the vast information available on the World Wide Web. If you have comments on the links included in these pages, or if you have suggestions for other resources to be added, please contact the Department Web Manager.
Academic Integrity and Plagiarism Statement (pdf)
Academic integrity is a fundamental principle of collegial life at the University of Saint Francis and is essential to the credibility of the university’s education programs. This document also contains information regarding plagiarism.
USF Writes: Writing Tips by Saint Francis Students for Saint Francis Students
Effective Thesis Statement Powerpoint
A Writer's Reference
The companion website for Diana Hacker's A Writer's Reference. Includes exercises, tutorials, and model papers.
Purdue Online Writing Lab
The best one-stop-shopping site for information on the nuts and bolts of college-level writing. Includes handouts, exercises, and examples.
Paradigm Online Writing Assistant
Brief but clear explanations and advice on specific topics covering everything from prewriting techniques to parenthetical citations.
Citation Machine
An online program that creates APA, MLA, Chicago, or Turabian citations from information entered by the user.
Online Dictionary and Thesaurus
My Virtual Reference Desk
A privately-run service, MVRD indexes hundreds of online publication, services, and other indices. It is extensive, easy to navigate, and has no advertising.
Online Dictionaries, Thesauri, and Encyclopedias
This index at Yahoo is not as extensive as MVRD’s, but it provides a more concise list of online references.
Roget’s Thesaurus
The classic thesaurus is now hypertextual, and allows you to easily find the exact word you want.
Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations
The electronic form allows you to search quotations by topic or author.
Quotation Collections At Yahoo
This index provides links to numerous quotation collections and can provide a contemporary balance to quotations found in Bartlett’s.
Thomas (Library of Congress)
Thomas offers extensive information on American government and politics, including Congressional documents, White House press releases and links to numerous government agencies.
Yahoo's Newspapers
Yahoo's index is comprehensive, providing links to newspapers all over the U.S. and throughout the world.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Electronic Magazines
This link will provide a list of online magazines, both those that originate in print form and others that are designed strictly for the Web.
Online Books
This link provides indices of "books" that are online, from traditional texts through electronic literature.
The Bartleby Library
This site collects electronic versions of many classic books now in the public domain. You'll be happy to see you can search for key words and phrases in many of them.
ABCNEWS
The American Broadcasting Company has online resources, particularly on its news programs and entertainment shows.
MSNBC
This news collaboration by Microsoft and NBC brings together various news media into one resource. The site even provides information on on-air programs such as Nightline and Meet the Press, including transcripts from these news shows.
CBS
CBS focuses on political issues, its news programs and entertainment shows.
National Public Radio
NPR provides in-depth news and information on current events and the arts. The local NPR affiliate, WBNI – 89.1 also maintains a Web site.
Alta Vista
It is possibly the most comprehensive single search engine on the Web, but be ready for a flood of responses if your keyword search isn't specific enough.
WebCrawler
It is not as comprehensive as Alta Vista, but its "tips" pages are far easier to understand. It has fewer ads to load (hence fewer graphics), so this engine can be a real time-saver on slower machines.
Yahoo
This is the most browse-able and in-depth of the subject indexes, offering a search option at each level of information. A great place to learn about the Web or go roaming for possible paper topics, especially if you follow the "What's Cool" and "What's New" links.
LookSmart
This subject index sponsored by Readers Digest is billed as the place to go when you want to find resources quickly and efficiently.
Yahooligans
Something for kids.
