Resources in this section are intended to supplement assignment/project prompts and instructions provided by your professor.
When in doubt, seek additional guidance from your professor.
Books for Research and Writing
Find a curated collection of books to support research and writing in the reference section on the 1st floor of the Main Library; this section shares a shelving unit with the Faculty-Author Collection.
Books, reference works, journal articles, instructional videos, and data sets; large collection of qualitative methods books; see the What Stats Test, and Project Planner tools.
Kristin Luker guides researchers in: knowing the difference between an area of interest and a research topic; defining the relevant parts of a potentially infinite research literature; mastering sampling, operationalization, and generalization; understanding which research methods best answer your questions; beating writer's block.
The Craft of Research has helped generations of researchers at every level--from high-school students and first-year undergraduates to advanced graduate students to researchers in business and government. Conceived by seasoned researchers and educators Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, and Joseph M. Williams, this fundamental work explains how to choose significant topics, pose genuine and productive questions, find and evaluate sources, build sound and compelling arguments, and convey those arguments effectively to others.