Academic Integrity (1). This is the official statement from the Dean of Students about what is expected and why. It tells you what plagiarism is and how to avoid it by proper use of quotations, paraphrasing, citations and references. A word to the wise should be sufficient!

Copyright Policy (2). You probably will not need this, but if you do, here it is.

CS234: Technical Writing (3, 11). You will not be doing technical writing in this course, but many of the same principles apply.

SWC Courses (4). The History of SWC Courses section gives the rationale and requirements for these courses.

Undergraduate Writing Center (5). You can go here for help with your writing.

Online Handbooks. Here are two that appear to be good ones.

KU Writing Guides (6)
Writer's Handbook (7)

Style Guides. Here are some professional level guides.

The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th ed. (8). This guide is widely used by many professions. This edition contains many updates for electronic sources.

The Columbia Guide to Online Style (9). Although somewhat dated, this guide remains highly regarded. Excerpts are available online.

IEEE Computer Society Style Guide (10). The IEEE Computer Society is a major publisher of refereed computing literature.

Notes

1. "Academic Integrity," http://deanofstudents.utexas.edu/sjs/academicintegrity.html (The University of Texas at Austin, accessed 2004 Aug 18).

2. "Digital Millennium Copyright Act," http://www.utexas.edu/policies/dmca.html (The University of Texas at Austin, accessed 2004 Aug 18).

3. Lisa C. Kaczmarczyk, "CS 234: Technical Writing," http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/lisak/syllabus234.html (The University of Texas at Austin, accessed 2004 Aug 18).

4. "Substantial Writing Component Resources," http://www.swc.utexas.edu/index.html (The University of Texas at Austin, accessed 2004 Aug 18).

5. "Undergraduate Writing Center," http://uwc.fac.utexas.edu (The University of Texas at Austin, accessed 2004 Aug 18).

6. "Writing Guides," http://www.writing.ku.edu/students/guides.shtml (The University of Kansas Writing Center, accessed 2004 Aug 18).

7. "Writer's Handbook," http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/index.html (University of Wisconsin - Madison Writing Center, accessed 2004 Aug 18).

8. The Chicago Manual of Style: The Essential Guide for Writers, Editors, and Publishers, 15th ed. (University of Chicago Press, 2003).

9. Janice R. Walker and Todd Taylor, The Columbia Guide to Online Style (Columbia University Press, 1998). Excerpts at http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/cgos/idx_basic.html, accessed 2004 Aug 18.

10. "Special Sections, Style Guide Home," http://computer.org/author/style/index.htm (IEEE Computer Society, accessed 2004 Aug 18).

11. Justin Zobel. Writing for Computer Science: The art of effective communication (Springer, 2002).