Successful academic writing requires identifying different positions within your discipline and contributing to the conversation. Participation requires knowing what the other participants are talking about. Although the specifics are different across disciplines, this guide outlines several techniques and resources that will help focus your search.

Citation management programs like Zotero and EndNote let you store, annotate, and organize your citations. OSU Guides have more information:

The Graduate School

• Graduate Writing Center
  The Graduate Writing Center is open for appointments from week two of each term through finals week.

Writing & Research Guides

• Excelsior Online Writing Lab (OWL)

Citation Builders  

• UNC Libraries Online Citation Builder