Wednesday, February 18, 2009

English writing - web resources

Academic Writing

General

The Writing Centre from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. A very comprehensive site for writing, grammar and referencing help

Charles Sturt University - An introductory tutorial on academic writing

Academic Phrasebank - Lists of suitable phrases for tasks such as referring to the literature, reporting results and discussing findings (compiled by Manchester University)

Science Specific

Scientific Writing Booklet (pdf)
A very comprehensive guide to scientific report writing covering the structure of scientific reports, the writing process and referencing, from the University of Arizona Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Physics

Scitext Cambridge
The principles of writing a scientific document

Writing Guidelines for Engineering and Science Students - edited by Penn State and Virginia Tech.


Literature Reviews

Central Queensland University – This website has detailed tutorials and video presentations of academics in different faculties discussing literature reviews.

University of Canberra
A short guide to writing a literature review

University of Toronto
A list of questions to ask when searching for and evaluating sources for a literature review

University of North Carolina
Quite detailed guidelines for structuring and writing a literature review


Thesis Writing

Australasian Digital Theses Program
A database of digital versions of theses, which, as of April 1 2008, contained 23,634 theses. La Trobe University students can publish their theses to this database.

NDLTD (Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations)
Searchable databases containing hundreds of thousands of theses and dissertations from around the world

Index to Theses
A database of over half a million theses accepted for higher degrees by universities in Great Britain and Ireleand since 1716

University of Melbourne
Pamphlets on various aspects of thesis writing and links to other useful websites

University of Canberra
Institute for Applied Ecology - Notes on Writing Theses and Papers

University of NSW
How to Write a PhD thesis by Joe Wolfe, School of Physiscs. A little dated (1996) but is a concise overview of some important considerations when writing a thesis

Monash University
Brief guidelines on thesis writing

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