The following are some sites which provides information about good writing techniques - be sure to note that some of these sites may not update information on a regular basis and thus some info might be out of date.  SU does do  a good job of updating information, thus this would be the place where to start.

SU has a writing center which offers a variety of resources to improve your writing; be sure to check out this site before you start writing your first paper.

• Colorado State
• Northern Virginia Community College

If you are in need of some information about REFLECTIVE WRITING, please check out some of the following links:

• University College of Dublin - a very comprehensive site which provides detailed information about the philosophy of reflective writing and suggestions on how to approach it
• University of Central Florida - offers several examples of exemplary reflective writing

• Citation Machine - Citation Machine is an interactive Web tool designed to assist teachers and students in producing reference citations for crediting information from other people.
• Capital Community College of Connecticut has provided an excellent source of information about using the APA style sheet - the site offers lots of examples.  This site provides information not only on formatting citations but also formatting the pages, title pages, etc.
• The Shenandoah University Library offers suggestions for entering citations from either electronic or print media; requires Adobe Acrobat.
• Dr. Melvin E. Page prepared suggestions for citations of Internet sources
• The APA Electronic Style Org. offers suggestions on formatting references.
• The University of Minnesota has information about formatting references - quite extensive and good examples provided.
• The University of Purdue provides an extensive on-line manual, including the general format of your paper, referring to the works of others in the text, references or citations, examples, as well as additional resources.
• Psychology with Style - A Hypertext Writing Guide by Dr. M. Plonsky offers detailed information about writing to APA standards; the site was last updated in 2000 so some electronic information may be lacking; however it is still well worth a look!
• Specific information on citing e-books can be found at
  • Northeastern Junior College (CO)
  • Delta College
  • Harper College
  • Faulkner University
    • PDF Version of the above reference work
• Oswego State University - offers an interesting site - there are links to various sources of APA styles (as well as other styles) as well as other links to, for example, abbreviations, almanacs, biographical information, books & publishers, consumer information, country information, dictionaries, government information, etc.
• Duke University Research Center - this is a great site - it offers the format for the various types of citations that can be used (APA, Chicago, MLA, Turabian, and CSE.  For really specific information, you need to review the APA guidelines - however this site does over a brief overview which is a great refresher!
• Internet Public Library - offers numerous links to other sites containing information
• Using the American Psychological Association (APA) format