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Universität Basel
Department of English

Proseminar: Literature and Culture Studies

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Writing an Academic Paper

useful links

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What is a Thesis Paper?

Writing about literature
[http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/general/gl_lit.html] (March 2002)
What is an academic paper?
[http://www.dartmouth.edu/~writing/materials/student/ac_paper/what.shtml] (Jan. 05)
Writing a thesis
[http://www.dartmouth.edu/~writing/materials/student/thesis.shtml] (Jan. 05)
What is a thesis? / developing a thesis
[http://www.dartmouth.edu/~writing/materials/student/ac_paper/develop.shtml] (Jan. 05)
how to find a good thesis
[http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/thesis.html] (March 2002)

Structure and Argument

Considering Structure and Argument" [http://www.dartmouth.edu/~writing/materials/student/ac_paper/write.shtml] (Jan. 05)
Logic in Argumentative Writing [http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/general/gl_argpers.html] (March 2002)
Logic and argument [http://www.dartmouth.edu/~writing/materials/student/ac_paper/logic.shtml] (Jan. 05)
Coherence [http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/general/gl_cohere.html] (March 2002)
Conciseness [http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/general/gl_concise.html] (March 2002)
Attending to Style (coherence and conciseness) [http://www.dartmouth.edu/~writing/materials/student/ac_paper/style.shtml] (Dec. 04)

Bibliography / Avoiding Plagiarism

Quoting, Paraphrasing and Summarizing [http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_quotprsum.html] (March 2002)
Researching your topic / dealing with sources [http://www.dartmouth.edu/~writing/materials/student/ac_paper/research.shtml] (Jan. 05)

MLA-style: [http://www.rpi.edu/dept/llc/writecenter/web/mla.html] (March 2002)

Language

Improve your Writing Style [http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/style.html] (March 2002)
How to Improve Sentence Variety [http://www.asu.edu/duas/wcenter/variety.html] (March 2002)

Using Commas [http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_comma.html] (March 2002)
Grammar, Spelling, Punctuation and Syntax [http://www.dac.neu.edu/owl/ucdict/secel.html] (March 2002)
Attending to grammar [http://www.dartmouth.edu/~writing/materials/student/ac_paper/grammar.shtml] (Jan. 05

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