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• Academic Support Center (ASC) - help available from Florida Tech faculty.
• Writing Style Guide - writing guidelines from the University's  Marketing and Communication Toolbox.
• Tips for defining and writing a thesis statement - courtesy of the Center for Writing Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
• Applied Digital Skills for college and continuing education -Free training videos to prepare students to use digital tools (mostly Google's) effectively.
• Turnitin Practice Drop-box from Evans Library. 
• Please Note:  Check your Turnitin Similarity Score before submitting your paper -- use the Turnitin Practice Drop-box from Evans Library! This Canvas "course" offers a Turnitin drop-box with special settings that allows you to submit and resubmit papers for Similarity Scoring. This process of checking your Similarity Score does not effect the final submission of your paper. To use the Turnitin drop-box, simply enroll yourself in the TurnItIn Practice Drop-box course.

• Comparing scholarly journals with magazines and trade publications (courtesy St. Mary's University)
• Anatomy of a scholarly journal (NCSU Libraries)
• Component of a scholarly article  (NCSU Libraries)

A journal is considered as scholarly if it is peer reviewed. Look for the following to find a peer-reviewed journal: 

• If the journal is sponsored by a professional scholarly society or association (e.g., the American Psychological Association) or by a university program (e.g., Critical Inquiry) or department (e.g., Social Science History).
• If the journal has a list of reviewers or an editorial board inside the front cover, back cover, or on the first few pages. 
• If a journal is indexed in an important index for your field.