Resources for Students

Our student resources were composed by current and former Writing Center tutors for the benefit of CGU students. Please email us if there are topics you feel we should add, or if you know of great resource websites we can link to from this page.

Starting Out

Progressing Through

Finishing Up

Components of Graduate Papers

Choosing & Narrowing a Topic

Critical Thinking & Graduate Education

Arguments

Understanding & Preventing Plagiarism

Working with Source Material includes note-taking and evaluating sources

Writing in Specific Fields

Specific Writing Assignments

Conference Papers & Proposals

Fellowship & Grant Applications

Qualifying Examinations

Theses & Dissertations

 

Dissertation Workshop

Dissertation Boot Camp

Dissertators Blog

 

Preparing your CGU Dissertation
or Thesis

Paginating Your Dissertation

 

 

 

 


 

 ESL

Videos Powerpoints Webinars

 Career Related

 

Help for International Students and English Language Learners

What is the Global Communications Course?

Webinars

Lunch & Learn: Overview of Diigo, Dopbox & Evernote. with Dr. Carleen Shaffer, Office of Information Technology

Lunch & Learn: Diigo with Dr. Carleen Shaffer, Office of Information Technology.
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Lunch & Learn: Dropbox with Dr. Carleen Shaffer, Office of Information Technology.
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Lunch & Learn: Evernote with Dr. Carleen Shaffer, Office of Information Technology             Click HERE to evaluate this webinar

Video Presentations

IRB Workshop with Rev.Catharine Grier Carlson and Lourdes Villarreal

Ten Ways to Start a Consulting Practice in Grad School Workshop with Bennett McClellan (Spring 2010)

Ten Ways to Start a Consulting Practice in Grad School Workshop with Bennett McClellan (Spring 2012)

Presenting Conference Papers with Gail Taylor and Richard Newton

Writing a Dissertation Proposal (School of Educational Studies) Prof. Daryl Smith

 

Powerpoint Presentations

Giving Conference Papers

Writing & Publishing Book Reviews

Writing the Literature Review

Writing for Music

Managing a Grad Workload

 

Resumes & Cover Letters

Consulting While in Graduate School

Links to Other Websites

Hacker On-Line
This is an on-line writers' reference with exercises based on the 6th edition of A Writer's Reference by Diana Hacker. It contains good basic information for graduate writing, from how to do research to writing approaches and grammar exercises. The site is maintained by the publisher Bedford/St. Martins. 

OWL at Purdue
This is Purdue University's Online Writing Lab (OWL). It contains great resources for all aspects of research and writing. It is also a very handy site to bookmark to quickly look up MLA and APA documentation style.
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