Whether its writing your first research paper or your final dissertation, we've collected a variety of useful sources to make the process a little easier.

UNT Resources

• Graduate Writing Support Center
• UNT Writing Laboratory
• Free Editing Help for Nonnative English Speakers, from Dr. Ryan Boettger, UNT Assistant Professor, Linguistics and Technical Communication
• UNT Academic Integrity
• UNT Copyright Resources
• UNT Libraries Copyright Basics
• UNT Digital Library (Thesis and dissertation collection)
• Office of Research Integrity and Compliance (IRB and IACUC)
• Office of Technology Transfer (IP disclosure forms, NDAs, etc)

Plagiarism

• Indiana University: What It Is and How To Recognize and Avoid It (Plagiarism)
• VAIL (Virtual Academic Integrity Laboratory) Tutor
• CBB Plagiarism Resource Site

Reproducing Copyrighted Material

• US Copyright Office: The Four Fair Use Provisions
• 10 Big Myths about copyright explained
• Fair Use Visualizer
• ALA Digital Slider, for determining copyright status

Online Style Guides & Resources

• Demystifying the Dissertation Proposal, from The Chronicle of Higher Education by Dr. Leonard Cassuto
• Chicago Manual of Style
• Internet Public Library: Citing Electronic Information
• The Good, The Bad & The Ugly: or, Why It's a Good Idea to Evaluate Web Sources (New Mexico State University)
• World Wide Web Virtual Library: Evaluation of Information Sources

Awards

• UNT University Writing Award
• Networked Digital Library of Electronic Theses & Dissertations (NTLTD) offers awards for the most technologically innovative electronic dissertation
• Dissertation awards from the Colleges of Business, Education, and Information are available directly from these colleges. Please contact them directly for more information.