Current Students

Academic Support

The OUCN offers the following resources for the convenience of our students but not as an endorsement of any particular site or business.

Learning Strategies

• Library Skills: Study Skills Tutorial - Time management, note taking, reading, writing, presentations, revision, and test-taking techniques. Consists of interactive exercises and reading list.

Researching

• Robert Bird Library: Locating Library Materials
• The Internet Public Library - Internet resources that include references, magazines and serials, newspapers, online texts, and web searches
• Medline - Bibliographic Database - Free access through PubMed and Grateful Med
• CINAHL - A comprehensive database that covers nursing and allied health literature from 1982 to the present.

Writing Skills

General

• Plagiarism and the Internet
• OUHSC Writing Center
• What Is Plagiarism?
• Writer's Workshop (University of Illinois) - Includes writing Resources

Guides on Writing

• A Beginner's Guide to Effective Email - How to write efficient, clear, and effective email
• Paradigm Online Writing Assistant (Boise State University)
• Writing Services (Sweet Briar College)
• Writing Skills - How to cite World Wide Web information, citing Internet resources with APA, steps to writing a research paper, and steps for writing essays.
• Writing Style and Technique - Audience and tone, logic and arguments, sentences, words and phrases, paragraphs, coherence, clarity, conciseness, transitions, gender-free writing, writing on the computer

Style Manuals

• American Psychological Association (APA) Style - Monroe Community College
• Using American Psychological Association (APA) Format (Updated to 5th Edition)
• Writing Guides and Style Manuals - Mabee Library Guides, Washburn University Writing Center, Style Manuals by Discipline, Internet Resources
• APA-Style Helper (Software available for purchase)

Grammar

• Guide to Grammar and Style (University of Pennsylvania)
• Guide to Grammar and Writing (Capital Community-Technical College)
• Modern English Grammar (College of DuPage)
• Writer's Handbook: Grammar and Punctuation