Prospectus Outline
Library
E-reserve (you will need your ISU ID number and library proxy ID if off campus)
On Writing, Generally, and on Writing the Dissertation in Particular
Rick Bragg Laments His Absent Muse
PhinisheD, "a discussion and support group for people trying to finish their dissertations..."
"10 Tips on how to write less badly" from Michael C. Munger
On being a Graduate Student
What I Wish I’d Known About Graduate School series by Hannah Eagleson for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship
The Chronicle of Higher Ed's Graduate Student News page
The American Educational Research Association's Graduate Student Council
Thesis Requirements & Graduate College Resources
Humor
Fun Research
The Annals of Improbable Research and Ig Nobel Prizes
Ask the Animals: Songs to Make Dogs Happy
Marshmallow Peeps research
Data Visualization
Good vs. bad Venn diagrams from Flowing Data
Flowing Data, Data visualization blog
Many Eyes (for visualizing data) -- New York Times article about Many Eyes as a collaborative tool: "Lines and Bubbles and Bars, Oh My! New Ways to Sift Data"
Concept Maps
Managing your Bibliography / References
Clint Stephens' website
Table of contents alerting: Sage
Other Software/Websites / Blogs
Doodle (for scheduling meetings, helpful for POS)
Statistics rgoogleview archive from UK's Parliament
ISU templates for posters and presentations
Transcribing / speech recognition from SeventhString (thanks, Farah!)