teaching with writing

research strategies in physical sciences

• Quickstudy: Library Research Guide: a series of online tutorials designed to help students become familiar with research at the University. 
  
  
• Research Quickstart: a set of research tools categorized by disciplines listing menus of research resources, books, and writing guides.
  
  
• Subject Resources for the Physical Sciences and Engineering: a page with links to subject-specific resources from astronomy to Earth science that include dictionaries, search engines, data and data bases, and links to Minnesota's departmental pages.
  
  
• CourseLib: a service provided by University of Minnesota librarians that enables instructors to build and post customized, course-specific research pages.
  
  
• Documentation formats:
  
  
  • Writer's Handbook at the University of Wisconsin-Madison: a site outlining two forms of documentation including the Council of Biology Editors (CBE) manual and the Scientific Style and Format.
    
    
  • Council of Science Editors (CSE): a documentation format requiring in-text citations and a reference list at the conclusion of the document.

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