TWU Libraries

TWU Libraries Reference Guides to Theses and Dissertations

Introduction to Theses and Dissertations
Bibliographies of Theses and Dissertations

Writing/Composition Assistance

TWU Write Site
TWU Online Writing Lab
Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL)

General Research Guides

• ASAP: A Student Assignment Planner
  Richland College Library Assignment Calculator
• Assignment Calculator: You can beat the clock!
  University of Minnesota Assignment Calculator
• Research Design Explained
  Overview of Jolly and Mitchell's 6th edition of Research Design Explained includes links to a Student Companion Site and an Instructor Book Companion Site.
• Research Methods Knowledge Base
  A comprehensive web-based textbook by William M. Trochim, Cornell University, covering the entire research process as it would be covered in a typical introductory undergraduate or graduate course in social research methods.
• Research Methods Tutorials
  Tutorial Web projects put together by the students in Program Evaluation and Planning at Cornell University. Each of these projects teaches a specific research methods topic that the student selected. Students were instructed to write these tutorials for undergraduate or graduate student audiences that are new to social research methods.
• Russell Turpin's "Characterization of Quack Theories"
  Article with comments by Eric Pepke and Ken Arromdee.

Ethics

• Applied Ethics Resources on WWW
• Code of Ethics [ALA]
• Ethics Updates
• International Society for Environmental Ethics
• Issues in Health Care
• National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature
• On Being a Scientist: Responsible Conduct in Research
• Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Science

Evaluating Web Sites

• Bibliography on Evaluating Web Information
• Criteria for Evaluating Web Sites [SREB EvaluTech]
• Critical Evaluation Information [Schrock]
• Evaluation of Information Sources
• Evaluating Web Pages: Techniques to Apply & Questions to Ask [UC Berkeley - Teaching Library]
• Evaluating Web Pages  [Tutorial from Widener University, Wolfgram Memorial Library]
• Evaluating Web Resources [Cornell University Gateway]
• Evaluating Web Sites: Criteria and Tools [Princeton University Library]
• Evaluating Web Sites: Criteria and Tools [Cornell University Library]
• How To Evaluate A Web Site [LaJean Humphries]
• MARS Best Free Reference Web Sites, 1999- [bibliography]
• Search Engine Watch
• The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, or, Why It's a Good Idea to Evaluate Web Resources [Beck]
• Thinking Critically about Discipline-Based World Wide Web Resources [Grassian at UCLA College Library]
• Thinking Critically About World Wide Web Resources [Grassian at UCLA College Library]
• Web Page Evaluation Checklist [PDF]  [UC Berkeley - Teaching Library]
• WWW CyberGuide Ratings [forms]

Plagiarism

Scholarly or Popular?

• Journals - Scholarly or Popular?
• Scholarly to Popular Continuum
• Types of Periodicals: Scholarly Journals, Popular Magazines, Newpapers and Trade Publications

Legal Research

Nursing Research

Psychological Research

• Methods in Behavioral Research
  Web site for Paul C. Cozby's Methods in Behavioral Research, a text for research methods courses in psychology and other behavioral sciences published by Mayfield Publishing Company. For each of the book chapters, web resources are identified to enhance learning about and teaching research methods.
Covers links for research ethics, research writing, and research methods. Maintained by Dr. Douglas Degelman, Professor of Psychology at Vanguard University of Southern California.

Qualitative Research

• Qualitative Research Resources on the Internet
  Maintained by Ron Chenail, The Office for Academic Affairs, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
• QualPage
  Resources for qualitative researchers. Maintained by Judy Norris, Associate Professor of Nursing, University of Alberta.

Statistical Research

• Animated Statistics Demonstrations [Ohio University]
• The Data and Story Library
  Illustrates the use of basic statistics methods.
• HyperStat Online Textbook (Rice)
• Introductory Statistics: Concepts, Models, and Applications
  Web textbook by David W. Stockburger, Southwest Missouri State University.
• Rice Virtual Lab in Statistics
• Stat201
  A series of modules each covering a statistical topic to supplement an introductory algebra-based statistics course.
• Statistics to Use [Mean, standard deviation, etc.]
• StatSoft Electronic Textbook
  Includes an overview of concepts, modules representing classes of analytical techniques, a glossary and a list of references.
• SurfStat.australia
  Online text in introductory statistics. Australian National University.
• Topics in Mathematics: Statistics [Math Archives]
• VassarStats
  Both a guide to statistical methods and a calculator for statistical computations.