An OWL for researchers?

OWL? It stands for Online Writing Lab. If you're just getting started in the graduate programme, please visit The OWL at Purdue at http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/.

In particular, go through the APA Formatting and Style Guide as you will need to know how to write in APA style. OUM adopts the APA Manual of Style (5th Edition)for all research papers, project reports, theses and dissertations.

What this means is that you need to apply a system of citing and making references to materials you've used. Very often, students do not realise how important it is to use a comma, colon or semi-colon correctly or that making a reference to a particular document must be done in a certain way. If you don't apply the APA style correctly, your final research report will not be accepted until all corrections are made. Hence, you might as well learn how to apply the APA formatting early, and quickly learn and apply APA correctly from the start.

Alternatively, you may visit the official Web site at http://apastyle.apa.org/.

Or, if you like, you may purchase the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association 5th edition (Paperback) by American Psychological Association online. It's available at Amazon for US99.99.