The University of Texas at Austin

Useful Resources for Graduate School and Writing a Dissertation

Successfully completing graduate school

Graduate School Survival Guide
www-smi.stanford.edu/people/pratt/smi/advice.html

Graduate School Resources
www-personal.umich.edu/~danhorn/graduate.html

Finding topics and other information for the dissertation

UMI Dissertation Searches
wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/search

Resources for Research in Education
www.lib.utexas.edu/subject/education/index.html

Higher Education Abstracts (Book form only)
(Current Issue) LB 1027.5 C637 PCL Reference Dept
(Older volumes) LB 1027.5 C637 V.35 1999/00 PCL Stacks USE IN LIBRARY ONLY

Writing the dissertation

Writing and Presenting your Thesis or Dissertation
earnerassociates.net/dissthes/

ABD (All But Dissertation) Survival Web site
www.ecoach.com/ (Sign on for free email helps)

Books on writing a dissertation:

Successful Dissertations and Theses : A Guide to Graduate Student Research from Proposal to Completion
(Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education Series)
by David MadsenWriting Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day: A Guide to Starting, Revising, and Finishing Your Doctoral Thesis
by Joan Bolker

UT Sources of information:

UT Electronic Dissertations
www.utexas.edu/ogs/etd/index.html

UT Austin Master's Thesis and Report & Dissertation Template (sponsored by ACITS)
www.utexas.edu/cc/sds/products/disstemp.html

UT's Thesis and Dissertation Support (Sponsored by ACITS)
www.utexas.edu/cc/tds/

UT Deadlines, Graduation Packet and Forms for Graduation (by the Graduate School)
www.utexas.edu/ogs/pdn/