Symbolic Systems Program at
Stanford (SSP website). See especially:
Planning Research and Planning for Honors (Undergraduate Research Programs sites - many helpful links; read the stuff for faculty too, and note that faculty grants can cover honors projects that are faculty-initiated)
Center for Teaching and
Learning (many resources for more effective learning,
including the Oral Communication Program for training in
speechmaking)
Social
Science
Data and Software (SSDS) Group (a group within the Stanford
University Libraries & Academic Information Resources (SULAIR)
that provides services and support to Stanford faculty, staff and
students in the acquisition of social science data and the
selection and use of quantitative (statistical) and qualitative
analysis software. SSDS staff provide these services in a variety
of ways that include consulting, workshops and help documentation)
Department
of Statistics Consulting (free drop-in service for
researchers seeking advice from Statistics Department Ph.D.
students)
Research Compliance
Office and IRB (for everything related to getting approval
for human subjects research at Stanford)
Stanford University
Libraries and Academic Information Resources (SULAIR)
(portal for library services at Stanford, including the catalog
Socrates, research databases, and services like Social Science
Data and Software)
STANFORD
RESOURCES FOR CAREER DEVELOPMENT
Symbolic Systems Program
(below are parts of the site especially related to careers)
Career
Development Center (CDC) (for everything related to career
planning and searching!)
INTERNET RESOURCES FOR RESEARCH
(OUTSIDE OF STANFORD)
ACM's Online Guide to
Computing Literature (database for computer science
literature, requires Stanford access)
Boote, D.N. & Beile, P. (2005). Scholars
before researchers: On the centrality of the dissertation
literature review in research preparation. Educational Researcher,
34(6):3-15. (Good article on the purposes of literature review)
CiteSeer.IST
(citations and text database for computer and information science
papers)
ComIndex (database
for communication literature, requires Stanford access)
Bibliographic
Management Software (Stanford Library guide to EndNote and
RefWorks)
Databases
and
Articles (list of databases available through the Stanford
Library)
Google Scholar (Somewhat
haphazard, automated culling of scholarly papers and citations on
the web. Very useful, but only as a rough initial literature
search - it's missing a lot of older work. Try regular Google as well.)
Levine, S.J. (2005). Writing and
Presenting Your Thesis or Dissertation. Learner
Associates. (online book, also available in print form)
LLBA:
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (database for
linguistics literature, requires Stanford access)
** Palmquist, M. (2006).
The Bedford Researcher.
Bedford/St. Martins Press. (free companion website to book, lots
of excellent material and extensive weblinks of use to student
researchers)
Philosophers
Index (database for philosophy literature, requires Stanford
access)
Philosophy
in Cyberspace; Section 5: Student Resources (annotated list
of links about philosophical argument and writing)
PsycInfo
(database for psychology literature, requires Stanford access)
Resources
on Research, Writing, and Careers in Computer Science (list
of sites put together at Iowa State University)
Young, M. Undergraduate
Philosophical Writing (online manual created by a graduate
student at the University of California, Irvine)
"How
to Write - and Edit - a Paper" by Barry Wellman
INTERNET RESOURCES FOR CAREER
DEVELOPMENT (OUTSIDE OF STANFORD)
LinkedIn
Group: "Stanford Symbolic Systems Program" (note: LinkedIn
was founded by a Sym Sys alum - Reid Hoffman, '89)
PRINT RESOURCES FOR
RESEARCH
Levine, S.J. (2005). Writing and
Presenting Your Thesis or Disseration. Learner
Associates. (online book, also available in print form)
Palmquist, M. (2006). The Bedford Researcher.
2nd edition. Bedford/St. Martins Press.
see A
Selection of Books to Help With Your Thesis or Disseration
(Joe Levine's annotated listing)