PAS Tutorial

The Pathways to Academic Success (PAS) Tutorial is intended to introduce students to key issues in Information Literacy including searching methods, information types, evaluation of information, plaigiarism (and how to avoid it), and conducting scholarly research.

PAS Tutorial

Style Guides & RefWorks

Online Resources

• Assembling a List of Works Cited from Duke University Libraries
• Dartmouth College guide to using and citing sources
• Guides from the Purdue University Online Writing Lab:

  • Using the American Psychological Association (APA) Format
  • Using the Modern Language Association (MLA) Format

• Chicago/Turabian Guide from UW-Madison

Print Resources available in Lindell Library

• Reference HM73 .A54 1997
  American Sociological Association. The ASA Style Guide. 2nd ed. Washington, DC : American Sociological Association, 1997.
  
• Reference T11 .S386 1994
  Style Manual Committee, Council of Biology Editors.  Scientific Style and Format:  the CBE Manual for Authors, Editors, and Publishers.  6th ed. New York : Cambridge University Pr., 1994.
  
• Reference LB2369 .C57 1993
  The Chicago Manual of Style. 14th ed. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1993.
  
• Reference QD8.5 .A25 1997
  Dodd, Janet S., ed. The ACS Style Guide : a Manual for Authors and Editors. Washington, DC : American Chemical Society, 1997.
  
• Reference LB2369 .G53 1999    Copies also at the Reference Desk and in the circulating collection.  Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 5th ed.  New York : Modern Language Association of America, 1999. 
  
• Reference Desk TK5105.875.I57 H364 1997
  Harnack, Andrew and Eugene Kleppinger. Online! A Reference Guide to Using Internet Sources.  New York : St. Martin's Press, 1997.
  
• Reference Desk PN171.F56 L5 1996
  Li, Xia and Nancy B. Crane. Electronic Style : a Handbook for Citing Electronic Information.  2nd ed.  Medford, NJ : Information Today, 1996.
  
• Reference BF76.7 .P83 1994
  Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association.  5th ed. Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, 2001.
  
• Reference Desk PN171.F56 W35 1998
  Walker, Janice R. and Todd Taylor. The Columbia Guide to Online Style. New York : Columbia University Pr., 1998.
  

RefWorks

RefWorks is an online reference management tool.

What does that mean to you?

RefWorks can help you with your research in several ways:

• Track your research. Use it to keep track of what you've already looked at.
• Use "Write n Cite" with MS Word for inserting your footnotes and citations.
• Generate your bibliography in one of several official bibliographic formats like APA, MLA, Turabian, and more.
• Organize your research in folders that you can access at any time from anyplace in the world.

Basic Tasks in RefWorks (requires Acrobat Reader)

RefWorks Tutorial

Augsburg Writing Lab

Are you having trouble writing a paper? If so, the Writing Lab is a great resource offered to the Augsburg College Community. The Writing Lab is located in Lindell Library just to the left of the main circulation desk. Staff information and hours of operation are located on the Writing Lab website as well as many other writing resources.

Keep an eye on the Writing Lab website for current hours, especially during holidays, finals, and summer.

If you are in Rochester, there is writing help for you as well. The writing tutor is available from 3:30-6:30 Monday and Thursday.

Augsburg Tutor Center

The Augsburg Tutor Center offers free tutoring assistance for most lower-division courses. Students needing tutoring may contact Ross Murray, Coordinator of tutoring services and supplemental instruction. The service also notifies students of tutoring labs, and supplementary instruction sessions.

Tutor requests can be emailed to tutor@augsburg.edu

Other tutoring and academic skills help are offered by the Gage Family Center for Academic Achievement

Many Voices Project

Each year the Augsburg English Dept. chooses a different common text for Effective Writing that illuminates issues of diversity from an unusual or striking angle. Professors, staff, and students across the campus are encouraged to participate in reading and discussing the year's text, both in formal classroom venues and in informal settings.

There are resources and information available on the Many Voices website