Education, Business, and Social Sciences Research Writing

Resources for writing in education, social sciences, and business.

General advice on writing empirical articles from Cornell University

http://dbem.ws/WritingArticle.pdf

Extensive list of links for social science graduate writing

http://web.ceu.hu/writing/sfaccess.html

http://world.hanyang.ac.kr/~kentlee/slr/slr.write.htm

Using references

Good guides to the different kinds of citations in each field: APA style is standard in Linguistics and many other social sciences, but MLA style is more common in English Literature.

http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/

http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/Documentation.html

http://hanyangwriting.tripod.com/citation/

MLA

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/01/

APA

http://www.library.ubc.ca/pubs/apastyle.pdf

Reporting Verbs (describing the research of others)

https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/k-lee7/www/kesl/writ/reportverbs.pdf

http://www.uefap.com/writing/citation/citefram.htm 

http://iteslj.org/Techniques/Criollo-LitReview.html 

Research sources

TESOL Research

http://world.hanyang.ac.kr/~kentlee/slr/slr.lynx.htm

Google Scholar now allows you to search US laws.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/finding-laws-that-govern-us.html

Statistics

1. Countries of the world:

"a massive central data source and a handy way to graphically compare nations. NationMaster is a vast compilation of data from such sources as the CIA World Factbook, UN, and OECD. Using the form above, you can generate maps and graphs on all kinds of statistics with ease."

http://www.nationmaster.com/index.php

Journalism

Selection of PPT files for teaching

http://www.editteach.org/

Reflective writing and sketchbooks in Design

http://www.arts.ac.uk/cetl/visual-directions/reflective.htm