Writing up Research

Useful Links

If you find useful links about writing or language, please email lchelp@ait.ac.th  so that we can add them to this page. We have tried to include only pages that contain useful information about writing or language, rather than more pages of more links.

	APA documentation - this system is more often used by science and technology and social science writers than the MLA style (see below).
	Using Modern Language Association of America documentation for citing on-line resources by Janice Walker.
	Grammar and Style Notes by Jack Lynch. This site is indexed, and is searchable. Since the grammar points are listed by name (e.g. dangling modifier) they are not so useful unless you are familiar with grammatical terms. However, you can still find how to correctly errors of, say, use or punctuation.
	Common Errors in English Paul Brians' guide to common errors in English usage, listed by examples.
	Elements of Style by Strunk and White. This is an old but very well respected writing style guide that gives useful information about how to and how not to word your writing.
	The Cliche Finder (a cliché being an over-used expression) is a database of clichés. You can check use this to check whether your own work contains phrases trodden flat through over use . . .
	The Writer's Complex from SUNY Empire College has basic help for essay writing, grammar and other writing issues.

Check also links to the  Language Center's Writing pages.

Miscellaneous writing resources

• Purdue University OWL's Writing-related resources.

• Resources for Writers and Writing Instructors by Jack Lynch of Rutgers University

• Writing Resources by the University of Missouri

• Dave's ESL Cafe

• Writing courses on the WWW

• The Paradigm Online Writing Assistant

• Argumentative Essays

Online writing labs (OWLs)

• Purdue On-Line Writing Lab. This is one of the oldest OWLS, and continues to be one of the best.

• Writer's Web

• The Rensselaer Writing Center

• The University of Michigan OWL (now the Sweetland Writing Center)

• The Writing Center at Ohio State

• The English Grammar Clinic

• The Online Writery at Missouri

• The Citadel Online Writing Lab

Style Guides

• AIT's Style Guide for masters theses

• The Economist Style Guide. The Economist is well known for the high quality of its writing.

• Strunk and White

• The King's English by H. W. Fowler

• Writing Better: A Handbook for Amherst Students

• Documentation styles (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

• biblioscape.com (links to pages detailing the different basic styles)

• The Guardian's Style guide A guide to sub-editing

Worksheets

These worksheets have been developed as part of AIT's Writing up Research course (This work is under construction)

Writing proposals, theses and dissertations

•   Extension's Writing up Research online.

• Academic writing links. This site belongs to the Language Teaching Center at the Central European University in Budapest Hungary. This site belongs to the Language Teaching Center at the Central European University in Budapest Hungary.

• The stages of writing a PhD. But useful for masters students too.... These pages were developed by the University of Queensland.

• Writing and presenting your thesis or dissertation by Joe Levine

• SUNY Institute of Technology Telecommunications Program's Thesis Handbook

• How to write a dissertation by Purdue University's Department of Computer Science

• How to Write a PhD Thesis, by Joe Wolfe of the University of New South Wales' School of Physics

• How to Be a Good Graduate Student by Marie desJardins of the Computer Science Department at Indiana University-Bloomington

• Guide for writing a funding proposal by Joe Levine

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