PHILOS 341: Contemporary Moral Issues (Summer 2022) : Writing and Citing Resources

Writing Assistance

Writing Center
The Writing Center provides individual writing assistance to students by appointment at their main location in Helen C. White or by drop in hours at 8 satellite locations across campus, as well as online.
Writer's Handbook
The Writer's Handbook was designed by the Writing Center as an online help guide to writing papers in college. The Handbook discusses how to improve your writing style, common college writing assignments, the stages of writing, grammar and punctuation, and how to cite references.
Harvard College Writing Center: A Brief Guide to Writing the Philosophy Paper
A helpful guide from Harvard College Writing Center with information about how to structure a Philosophy paper and examples of good and poor writing.

Citing Sources Research Guide
Resources and examples for citing sources according to various citation styles.
Citation Managers
Citation Managers are software applications that you can use to gather references automatically from article databases, create a personal research database of references and documents. and format citations and bibliographies instantly in a variety of styles in your paper.

Here's a helpful tutorial that might answer some of the questions you have about citing sources: