Quick links for useful resources
We’ve mentioned many useful resources throughout this Guide to Graduate Research and Thesis Writing. Here are some quick links, and a few new ones.
Help at La Trobe
Consultations
- For individual consultations about your writing book here: libraryresearchsupport@latrobe.edu.au
Seminars and regular writing programmes
- Writing Circles. The Library and RED teams can help you set up and run Writing Circles to develop your editing and writing skills. Contact: libraryresearchsupport@latrobe.edu.au
Tools for Organisation and Focus
- Microsoft To DoHelps plan your days and track your work.
- NoisliFind music and sounds to help you focus
- Forest AppCan help you focus and avoid distractions
Online tools and resources
General language resources
Literature mapping tools
Apps to help with your writing
Writing Blogs
More great resources
Caplan, N. A. (2019). Grammar Choices for Graduate and Professional Writers. University of Michigan Press.
Carter, S., Guerin, C. &Aitchison, C. (2020) Doctoral Writing: Practices, Processes & Pleasures. Springer.
Cayley, R. (2023) Thriving as a Graduate Writer. University of Michigan Press.
Evans, D. & Gruba, P., & Zobel, J. (2014). How to Write a Better Thesis (3rd ed.). Melbourne University Press.
Golding, C. (2017). Advice for writing a thesis (based on what examiners do). Open Review of Educational Research, 4(1), 46-60. https://doi.org/10.1080/23265507.2017.1300862
Kamler, P. & Thompson, B. (2014). Helping doctoral students write: pedagogies for supervision. (2nd ed.). Routledge.
Mewburn, I., Firth, K. & Lehmann, S. (2019). How to fix your academic writing trouble: a practical guide. Open University Press
Paltridge, B. & and Starfield, S. (2019). Thesis and dissertation writing in a second language: a handbook for students and their supervisors. (2nd ed.). Routledge.
Swales, M. & Feak, C. B. (1994). Academic writing for Graduate students: A Course for Nonnative Speakers of English. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press.
Sword, H. (2012). Stylish Academic Writing. Harvard University Press.
Sword, H. (2016). The writer’s diet: a guide to fit prose. University Press of Chicago.
Sword, H (2017). Air & light & time & space: how successful academics write. Harvard University Press.
Weatherall, R. (2019). Writing the doctoral thesis differently. Management Learning, 50(1), 100-113. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350507618799867
Williams, J. M. (2003) Style: Ten Lessons in Clarity and Grace (7th ed.). Addison-Wesley Educational Publishers Inc.