Style & Writing

• Elements of Style, version 1.0
• Citing Government Documents
• Berkeley citation guides
• Guide to citation styles
• Guide to Research Paper Citation Styles
• Guide to Legal Citation
• Citation Guides
• Orwell's "Politics and the English Language"
• Common Errors in English
• Purdue Online Writing Lab handouts
• Turabian Citation Generator
• Beginner's Guide to APA Style

• The Internet Archive Wayback Machine (the whole Internet back to 1996)
• Open CRS (Congressional Research Service Reports)
• Internet Movie Archive
• Library of Congress catalog
• Melissa (finding people, addresses, zips, maps)
• The Political Graveyard (biographical info on political figures)
• The Smoking Gun (primary sources, usu. scandal)
• Acronym Finder
• Respectfully Quoted (reliable dictionary of quotations)

• American Political Science Association
• JSTOR (full text of scholarly journals)
• WikiSummary (social science summary database)
• Kennedy School of Government research
• Political Organizations & Parties (APSA)
• APSA papers
• Midwest PS Association conference papers
• The Monkey Cage (poli sci blog)

• Federal Statistics
• Wolfram Alpha (computational database)
• Data.gov
• Statistical Abstract of US
• Historical Statistics of US/Old Statistical Abstracts
• Economic Indicators
• Bureau of Economic Analysis
• Nationmaster (comparative international data)
• StatCat (statistical data finder)
• Measuring Worth: deflators & relative values