Over the years I have created a number of general hand-outs that have been heavily used both within and outwith Edinburgh Napier University. The following PDF files are freely available for download:

• Rules and conventions of academic writing
• Its and it’s
• Written assessment hints (for honours project and Masters dissertation students)
• Report writing
• Writing up your dissertation
• Reference list entries, bibliographies and in-text citations (with a focus on Harvard and APA, also known as the “yellow booklet” to Edinburgh Napier students) NB this handout was created in 2005 and some of the details are out of date. Please refer to the APA web site for current practice.