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This helpful resource takes you completely through the writing process and includes solid information on how to develop effective writing skills, such as tips on how to develop a thesis statement, how to write effective essays, and help with rules of grammar and punctuation.

LILO is a tutorial used throughout the UH System. It is designed to help students develop college level research skills in 6 interactive modules:
1. The Research Process
2. Understanding Your Assignment
3. Search Strategies
4. Searching
5. Evaluating Resources
6. Using Resources

From Johns Hopkins University, this guide provides an in-depth examination of evaluation criteria.

Very useful information for finding, evaluating and citing information by subject or academic discipline: art, literature, philosophy, religion, world history, American history, anthropology, psychology, sociology, biology, physics, nursing, business, and many more.

From Cornell University, this page explains the structure and content of annotated bibliographies.

From Leeward Community College.

From Honolulu Community College

Find background information on thousands of topics from a reliable publisher.
A University of Hawaii subscription.

This site offers a simple search form for the Merriam Webster Dictionary and the Merriam Webster Thesaurus.

Produced by the CIA, this site provides information on the history, people, government, and economy of 267 countries.

A major source of economic, social, and educational statistics for the U.S.

Purdue University's OWL site offers samples of MLA entries.

Also from Purdue's OWL site.

From David Taylor, a senior writing advisor at University of Maryland University College's Effective Writing Center. Has been viewed over 499,000 times.

From the American Psychological Association, this slide show covers the basics of APA style of citation, which is used in the Social Sciences.

From Purdue University's OWL.

From the University of Chicago Press, which publishes the Turabian guide.

"A fully automatic bibliography maker that auto-fills."

From North Carolina State University Library, this is another popular program for automatically formatting references in a bibliography or reference list.

An interactive Web tool that formats your entries to create standard APA or MLA citations.