Students and others in need of guidance at this time of year can check out the Research and Essay Writing guides listed at Keyanaw Etutor, a service directed towards Aboriginal students in the first instance but of value to everyone. The U. of S. Library also has an excellent suite of materials for students. From the Library home page click on "How to Find, Evaluate, Write,Cite", or click here to go straight there. This cite is particularly good on, ahem, plagiarism.
These links and other valuable research guides (footnotes, anyone?) are also available from the pull-down menues at the top of this page: click "Undergraduates" and choose "online resources", or for an even larger selection click "Graduates" and choose "resources for grad students."