All theses and dissertations must be formatted to conform to the University's Thesis and Dissertation Style and Policy Manual.

NOTE: Sample prefatory pages and other useful links can be found on Appendix A (page 39) of the Style Manual.

See the guidelines for Manuscript Review of Theses and Dissertations for a list of graduate school expectations and common problems in the writing process.

THE FOLLOWING ARE ONLINE RESOURCES FOR...

Academic Writing

• The Owl at Purdue University, Free Writing Help and Teaching Resources Online: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/
• Writing for Change by Alan Barker, Firoze Manil, and Judith Charlton for International Development Research Center (IDRC) of Canada: http://www.idrc.ca/IMAGES/books/WFC_English/WFC_English/
• Writing Resources from the Writing Center at Princeton University:
  http://webware.princeton.edu/sites/writing/writing_center/wcwritingresources.htm

Choosing a Topic and Writing a Thesis/Dissertation Proposal

• "Choosing a Research Topic," by Richard M. Reis, Stanford University. Retrieved November 2006 from the Chronicle of Higher Education online: http://chronicle.com/jobs/99/11/99111902c.htm
• "Berkeley-Rockefeller African Development Dissertation Workshop" online, Institute of International Studies, UC-Berkeley. Retrieved November 2006 from the University of California, Berkeley website:
  http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/DissPropWorkshop/
• "Some Thoughts on Dissertation Proposal Writing," by Chris M. Golde, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Retrieved November 2006 from Chris Golde's webpage: http://chris.golde.org/filecabinet/disspropose.html

Organizing a Thesis/Dissertation

• "Thesis Writing, Guru-Style," by Andrea Lord. Retrieved November 2006 from sciencecareer.org:
  http://nextwave.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2001/02/28/10

Writing a Literature Review

• "The Literature Review: A Few Tips on Conducting it." Retrieved November 2006 from the University of Toronto website: http://www.utoronto.ca/writing/litrev.html
• An online hand-out from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, retrieved November 2006:
  http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/literature_review.html

Writing a Thesis/Dissertation

• Writing and Presenting your Thesis and Dissertation, by S. Joseph Levin, Ph. D., Michigan State University:
  http://learnerassociates.net/dissthes/
• Retrieved from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill website, November 2006:
  http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/dissertation.html
• Retrieved from the University of Kent (UK) website, November 2006:
  http://www.kent.ac.uk/uelt/learning/online/dissertation.html

Support During the Thesis/Dissertation Writing Process

• The Association for Support of Graduate Students (includes a newsletter, listserv, tips, consultants, etc.):
  http://www.asgs.org/
• Dissertation Advice from the Chronicle of Higher Education archives:
  http://chronicle.com/jobs/archive/topical/dissertation.htm
• First Thoughts to Finished Writing by the Teaching & Educational Development Institute at the University of Queensland, Australia: http://www.sss.uq.edu.au/linkto/phdwriting/

Time Management, Organization Skills & Stress

• Retrieved November 2006 from the University of Kent (UK) website:
  http://www.kent.ac.uk/uelt/learning/online/index.html
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill online hand-out with information on time management and stress, retrieved November 2006: http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/dissertation.html