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AP Stylebook

The AP Stylebook Online is used for most classes in Journalism.

It is searchable and it’s updated live as the AP adds or changes its style listings, ensuring that you always have the most up-to-date rules and tips.

APA Style

APA Style is the preferred writing style for many courses. Below you will find resources that will help you with APA style, including formatting bibliographies.

University Writing Center

The IU Indianapolis University Writing Center (UWC) is a free service available to all IU Indianapolis students, faculty, and staff, at both the graduate and undergraduate level. It is a place where students can go for help with writing assignments and projects. The UWC offers students the opportunity to work one-on-one with experienced readers and writers.

The UWC offers two convenient locations: Cavanaugh Hall (CA 427) and University Library (UL 2125).

To schedule a tutoring session at either the Cavanaugh Hall location or University Library location, you may telephone the CA location at (317) 274-2049, telephone the UL location at (317) 278-8171, or visit either UWC location. You must provide both your name and your University ID number, at the time you schedule the session.

What is Plagiarism?

According to the IU Student Code of Conduct, plagiarism is defined as presenting someone else’s work, including the work of other students, as one’s own. Any ideas or materials taken from another source for either written or oral use must be fully acknowledged, unless the information is common knowledge. What is considered “common knowledge” may differ from course to course.    

a. A student must not adopt or reproduce ideas, opinions, theories, formulas, graphics, or pictures of another person without acknowledgment.    

b. A student must give credit to the originality of others and acknowledge indebtedness whenever:          

  1. Directly quoting another person’s actual words, whether oral or written;          
  2. Using another person’s ideas, opinions, or theories;          
  3. Paraphrasing the words, ideas, opinions, or theories of others, whether oral or written;          
  4. Borrowing facts, statistics, or illustrative material; or          
  5. Offering materials assembled or collected by others in the form of projects or collections without acknowledgment.