Resources at George Mason University
- "Writing in History." Designed for students in History 100, but helpful to students in all history courses.
- The University Writing Center. Individual tutoring and on-line help.
Resources from Other Sites
- Bridgewater State College, "Turabian Style - Sample Footnotes and Bibliographic Entries (6th edition)"
- Edwards, Paul N. "How to Give an Academic Talk: Changing the Culture of Public Speaking in the Humanities" [PDF] (Society for the History of Technology).
- Faulkner, William. Nobel Prize Speech. (University of Mississippi.). "The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail." Is not the historian's voice a pillar as well?
- Foner, Eric, and John A. Garraty, eds., The Reader's Companion To American History
- Harvey, Gordon. "Writing with Sources" (Harvard). The do's as well as the don'ts.
- Indiana University, "Plagiarism: What It is and How to Recognize and Avoid It." Shorter than Harvey, but perhaps not as helpful.
- Lynch, Jack. Grammar and Style Notes. (Rutgers).
- Rael, Patrick. "Reading, Writing, and Researching for History: A Guide for College Students" (Bowdoin).
- University College Writing Workshop, the University of Toronto. "Using Topic Sentences."