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It seems many of you have posted some of my standby links for academic writing; including: Son of Citation Machine OWL from Purdue Google Scholar

One of my other favorites is Google Books. I was complaining one time that my textbook didn't have a "Control F" function to find a key work like I can in any PDF or other electronic document. I realized my smart phone could scan the ISBN barcode. That would take me to Google Books, where I could search by key word. It's AWESOME (when it works)!!

One of my new favorites (although unproven from my limited experience with it) is OttoBib []. It can create citations just by entering the ISBN number. It makes sense. I have created ISBN numbers for publications with my job, and I KNOW all that information gets entered into a database, so it should be easy to pull out and format for APA.

So I know Wikipedia is not an acceptable source for citing, but I often use it as a generic starting place to survey a new topic and learn some of the specific lexicon of the new subject area. In that same vein, I went to YouTube for our recent Theory Statement paper. I was trying to get a good overview of Symbolic Interactionism to help me as I read the textbook descriptions.

So here's what I found on Symbolic Interactionism: media type="custom" key="24377278"

I've also since found a blog on academic writing that takes us back to basic reminders we may all need from time to time. [] She also lists several resources and has posts on many topics we should have covered here. Looks like she beat us to the punch! (To use a colloquialism that we should avoid!)

Enjoy! Justin