Offering four years of private Christian college for the price of three. Accredited affordable Christian college of Bible and ministry in New York serves students from all states including Pennsylvania New Jersey and Florida through online courses and on campus undergraduate degrees for ministry or professional careers. Davis is one of the nation's oldest Christian colleges continuing a heritage of training Christian leaders for service to others with a biblical worldview. Dual enrollment online serving students including commuters from New York and Pennsylvania provides biblical higher education options.


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RESOURCE CENTER

Citing  research sources is a necessary part of good writing. Properly citing your sources can be a convoluted and confusing endeavour but this does not have to be the case. This page is designed to provide you with tools to assist in easing the pain that may be encountered in the process of properly formatting citations and bibliographies.
 
 



Citation Style Guides





 

MLA Style Guides
(Modern Language Association)

     Commonly used for: literature, writing, arts, humanities

Citation Style Guide: From the Writers' Workshop at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

MLA: Citing Internet Sources: From "Online! A Reference Guide to Using Internet Sources" by Andrew Harnack and Eugene Kleppinger (Bedford/St. Martins, 2003).

Print version in the Library:
MLA Handbook for writers of research papers
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6th edition (2003). New York: Modern Language Association 001.4 G437m

Updates from the forthcoming MLA 7th edition can be found at the Online Writing Lab (OWL - Purdue University)



Bibliography Composers Easybib
Free commercial product that converts citations to either MLA and APA and allows you to print, save in Microsoft Word, or view in html.

KnightCite
Bibliography composer from Calvin College that creates citations in the MLA, APA, and Chicago styles through an easy-to-use web form.



Copyright Guidelines Fair Use and Copyright Overview
Provides a comprehensive source of information on the proper use of materials and other fundamental items of copyright law.
From the Copyright & Fair Use section of Stanford University Libraries' website.


Avoiding Plagiarism Evaluate Your Sources (Colorado State University Libraries)

Oops, I Plagiarized (University of California, Los Angeles Library)

St. Martin's Guide to Avoiding Plagiarism (University of Massachusetts-Amherst)



Much of the information on this page was gleaned from Syracuse University's Library site.

  Davis College is a Christian college of Bible and ministry offering online dual enrollment courses for high school students, online Christian college courses for aduts, and on campus degrees. The College located in Greater Binghamton New York is regionally accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education and nationally by the Association for Biblical Higher Education.