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“I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.”
Richard Feynman

“Judge people by their questions rather than by their answers.”
Voltaire

Writing Center Forms

Writing Center Session Verification Form

Testing Instructions

MLA Format Guidelines

Writing Center Workshop 3 Slides on Academic Sources

Links to Writing and Language Resources

Purdue OWL an online resource for Academic Writing brought to you by Purdue University

UNC Writing Center an online resource for Academic Writing brought to you by the University of North Carolina

For Senior Thesis Projects

Parts of the Senior Project

Citation Tools
Easy Bibliography

Proofreading Tools
Grammarly

Forms
Title Page
Project Guidelines

Literature Review
Synthesis Paper Grid
Indiana University Writing Center Literature Review Planning Handout

Citation and Style
IEEE Style Guide
MLA Style Guide Purdue OWL

Sample Engineering Student Articles
USC Undergraduate Journal Illumin
Penn State Sample Honors College Senior Projects
Sample thesis

IMBA Workshop Resources

IMBA Worskhop Program

Useful Links to Writing Graduate a Thesis or Dissertation

Graduate Research Planning Handout

Graduate Research Database Search Handout

Keyword Search Tips

Some Search Engines:
Google Scholar
Bing
Swisscows
Dog Pile
Baidu
Yandex
WolframAlpha
Duck Duck Go

Links to Data Sources:
Open Corporates
Asian Development Bank
World Bank Open Data
Quantitative Data Stack Exchange
US Gov Open Data
EU Open Data Portal
UK Open Data
Pew Research Center
World Health Organization
UNICEF
CIA World Factbook
Flowingdata
Column Five
Forbes Links to Data Sites
Google Ngram Data Storage
Uppsala University Peace and Conflict Research
Harvard Atlas of Economic Complexity
Europeana Collections
Open Thesis

Reference Resources

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Forest of Rhetoric

Open Access Academic Databases and Resources

Fordham’s Lib-guide Links to Open Access Resources

Directory of Open Access Journals

Tome: Open Monograph Ecosystem

Open DOAR: Digital Open Access Repositories

OAPEN: Open Access Digital Academic Books (European Network)

Michigan Humanities Text Initiative

ACLS Open Source Books

Digital Book Index

PLOS: Science Journals Publishing

Hathitrust-Open Access Digital Books

Open Science: Books and Journals

Project Gutenberg: Digital Books

University Databases

Sichuan University Databases
Note: from this link you can browse by letter or search for individual databases using English 外文数据库 = Foreign Language Databases

Key Databases:
Gale: Business Insights Global
EBSCO Regional Business News
EBSCO Business Source Ultimate
JSTOR
Wiley
Springer

Mendeley
This is a good resource for managing your downloaded sources

UC Berkeley on Evaluating Sources

Sample MBA Proposal

Sample MBA Dissertation/Thesis