Department of Humanities and Communication
Academic Resources
Resources at Florida Tech
The Academic Support Center
Florida Tech’s Academic Support Center provides many services to ensure student success, including free tutoring for some courses. The On-Line Resources Section of the Center's website contains great tips for studying, test-taking, discovering your learning style, and much more.
The Evans Library
With an extensive collection of books, government documents, journals, and more than 1,700 current subscriptions, Evans Library is a great resource for your academic needs. Library staff are available to help you locate the information you need. If you need something that the library does not own, the library offers an online Interlibrary Loan Request Form.
Guidelines on Plagiarism
The Humanities and Communication Department has a zero tolerance policy for plagiarism and cheating. The Academic Dishonesty, Cheating, and Plagiarism handout outlines the Department’s policy and rationale.
Individual Course References
Many instructors in the Humanities and Communication Department use Blackboard to supplement classroom instruction. Other instructors use their own web-pages. Here are some course resources by individual instructors:
Resources for Writing
The OWL at Purdue
Visit Purdue University’s Online Writing Lab (OWL) for your writing needs, including grammar help, writing for job-seekers, general academic writing, and research and citation in different formats.
University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Writers’ Handbook
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Online Writers’ Handbook is designed to help students with their writing assignments. The handbook also provides links to other universities’ writing centers.
The Student Companion Website for The Bedford Handbook
Visit the Student Companion Website for The Bedford Handbook for electronic writing, research, and grammar exercises, as well as for model papers in MLA, APA, and Chicago styles.
Style Guides
MLA: From the OWL at Purdue
APA: From the OWL at Purdue
Chicago: From the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Writers’ Handbook