Our goal at Baker University is to meet your needs as an academic writer. To that end, The Writing Exchange is available for help.

Academic Writing: Form and Function

Baker University Style Guide--everything you need to know to survive using MLA style at Baker University.

Baker University's Rubric for Grading Papers

Have a grammar or MLA style question?  Email The Writing Exchange with your question and you will receive a reply within 24 hours during the work-week.  Please submit your work as a .doc or .rtf file attachment.  You may request an appointment to discuss your individual needs.

NOODLETOOLS (Citations)
This website offers assistance with citations. The Baker University Style Guide models the MLA format. Using the information collected from the source, the site will format the information according to the MLA format rules.  

LANDMARK (Citations)
Citation Machine is an interactive web tool designed to assist you in your effort to respect other people's intellectual properties.

MLA GUIDE FOR WEB CITATIONS
This section of the MLA Style website provides specific directions for and examples of web citations, both for Works Cited pages and in-text citations.

PURDUE UNIVERSITY ONLINE WRITING LABORATORY (OWL)
MLA Formatting and Style Guide. This resource, updated to reflect the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (6th ed.) and the MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing (2nd ed.), offers examples for the general format of MLA research papers, in-text citations, endnotes/footnotes, and the Works Cited page.

STUDY SKILLS
This website is dedicated to study skills and even provides suggestions for each discipline area. Be sure to read what other college students are saying. Just click on the book next to the handout.

MLA STYLE WITH DIANA HACKER
This resource provides detailed information on finding and documenting sources for research papers.  You can also view sample research papers in MLA Style on this site.

GUIDE TO GRAMMAR AND WRITING
An online aid for correct grammar and punctuation use. Here you can take quizzes (without penalty!) to ascertain your level of comfort from sentence level grammar to dangling modifiers. This link also provides exercises for those of us who are "grammatically challenged" to access more information online about grammar and punctuation use.