Welcome! Below you will find a selection of handouts and resources I have put together to help with completing written assignments, and getting started as a political theorist. Note that while most of the writing and research advice I provide here is applicable across academic disciplines, these resources have been created with writing for political theory courses in mind. If you are looking for a general guide to get you through the basics of college writing, I highly recommend Michael Harvey’s The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing (Cambridge: Hackett Publishing, 2003); for a definitive style guide that will get you through college and into the great beyond, try William Strunk, Jr. and E. B. White, The Elements of Style (Longman Publishing, 1999). Unless otherwise noted, I am the author of any handouts.
Writing Handouts:
Critical Essay Revision Guide (With Megan Gallagher)
On Paper Structure: Beyond the Five Paragraph Classic
A Quick Guide to MLA Citations
Making an Argument in the Context of Scholarly Debate
Political Theory Handouts:
Online Resources:
The Chicago Manual of Style: http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html
MLA Citation Style (via Chicago University): http://www.library.cornell.edu/resrch/citmanage/mla
Strunk & White online (full html text): http://www.bartleby.com/141/
UCLA Writing Center: http://www.wp.ucla.edu/index.php/home
Jack Lynch, “Guide to Grammar and Style,” http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/index.html
Susan Snively, Amherst College, “Writing Better:” https://www.amherst.edu/academiclife/support/writingcenter/advice/writingbetter
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: http://plato.stanford.edu