Monday, July 13, 2020

Writing Style Guides



Attention Students...

My primary objective for running this documentation site was to help my students understand specifics about different documentation styles as it pertained to our assignments.  My students are Liberty University students.  Liberty has a new system of teaching/educating Liberty students about documentation styles.  Therefore, I will no longer be updating content on this documentation site

I know that many students from other institutions are directed to this site for help, and the links to the left and the right of this message may still be useful for students from other institutions--since they are true documentation guides and helper forms--however, these links will no longer be updated by me to assist my primary students (Liberty students) since I will be referring my students to Liberty's new Writing Style Guides through the Liberty writing center.

While you can still review the links and content on these pages, Liberty has created their own online documentation site to assist students with current documentation styles.  See the Liberty online writing center's documentation handouts and systems for effective documentation requirements in our class.

Take note of the new writing style guides information below.

July 13, 2020 (Summer 2020)
Writing Style Guides
Liberty University and our Online Writing Center recently produced new digital Writing Style Guides for all major style manuals used in our courses. In part this is in response to changes affecting the major manuals (APA, Turabian, MLA, etc.) and how students purchase them for courses. It also reflects a need for various support offices to have uniform direction on how to best help our students. Chairs of our departments (residential and online) worked closely with the Writing Center staff to produce quick guides to each major style form. All students should go directly to the Writing Style Guides linked from the left menu in each Blackboard course.


Direct link to Liberty's Writing Style Guides: https://www.liberty.edu/online/casas/writing-center/writing-style-guides/

Saturday, February 16, 2019

APA Internal Requirements


Style Requirments within Documentation 

  • Use active voice, rather than passive voice.
  • [For ENGL101 and ENGL102 papers, use only 3rd person voice.  Do not use 1st person (I, me, my, etc.) or 2nd person voice (you, us, we, etc.).]