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Ruth Barton Writing Center
The Writing Center, which is located in the Tutt Library Learning Commons, offers one-on-one tutoring. You can make an appointment online or by calling 719-389-6742.
Online Bibliography and Literature Review Guides
How to Prepare an Annotated Bibliography from Cornell University.
Annotated Bibliographies by the Purdue University Online Writing Lab.
Literature Reviews from The Writing Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Write a Literature Review from the University of California at Santa Cruz.
What is an analytical argument?
Analysis Defined
1. Analysis seeks to discover what something means. An analytical argument makes claims for how something might be best understood and in what context.
2. Analysis deliberately delays evaluation and judgment.
3. Analysis begins in and values uncertainty rather than starting from settled convictions.
4. Analytical arguments are usually pluralistic; they tend to try on more than one way of thinking about how something might be best understood.
from Writing Analytically, by David Rosenwasser and Jill Stephen (Wadsworth 2012)
Research and Writing Guides
Research and Documentation Online by Diana Hacker is a comprehensive guide to writing, research, and citation for the Humanities, Social Sciences, History, and Sciences. The guide includes the following:
- How to find and document sources
- Tips for evaluating resources
- List of style manuals
- Samples of how to format papers
Research Librarian
1021 N. Cascade Ave.
Colorado Springs, CO
80903