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Here are some tips for using Microsoft Word more effectively as a writing tool.

Tutorials

• Word for Windows - https://support.office.microsoft.com/en-us/article/word-for-windows-training
• Word for Macintosh - https://support.office.com/en-us/article/word-2016-for-mac-help

Specific Topics

• On the Macintosh, use the Text to Speech feature to check your text
• Hanging Indents - needed for your Works Cited section

Why Cite?

Citing material properly is key to showing how your work fits into the larger scholarly conversation. Citations allow you to:

• clearly distinguish your ideas from the ideas that you are using from other sources
• create a path for your readers to find more resources on the topic

Citation Resources

• Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association - available at the Reference Desk at Hamilton Library. Other editions are also available.
• Purdue Owl - guide to APA citations

Citation Management Programs

Help you organize and work with your references, and connects those references to your word processing documents.

• Zotero
  • sign up for tutorial in Laulima
• Mendeley