Academic Writing

Graduate Writing Center

The Graduate Writing Center “is dedicated to developing graduate students' and postdoctoral fellows' writing and research skills.” Of interest is the link to Workshops & Events that lists various workshops, panels, and presentations on the subject of scholarly research and writing. Other links include Graduate Writing Groups and Thesis & Dissertation Boot Camps for which you register: during these four-day events, “Participants will develop more effective writing practices and will learn about topics such as goal setting, authorship, publishing, and presenting research.”

Office of Research and Innovation

Office of Research and Innovation: “An Interest in Plagiarism” by Marianne Evola, senior administrator in the Responsible Research area of the Office of the Vice President for Research.

Office of Research and Innovation: “Self-Plagiarism: Can You Steal from Yourself?” by Marianne Evola, senior administrator in the Responsible Research area of the Office of the Vice President for Research.

Misconduct, including Academic Misconduct (Section B): “Plagiarism”

1. The representation of words, ideas, illustrations, structure, computer code, other expression or media of another as one's own and/or failing to properly cite direct, paraphrased or summarized materials.
2. Self-plagiarism which involves the submission of the same academic work more than once without the prior permission of the instructor and/or failure to correctly cite previous work written by the same student.” (found at https://www.depts.ttu.edu/dos/docs/PartISectionB.pdf).

Writing Centers of Texas Tech

Writing Centers of Texas Tech includes links to APA (6th and 7th editions), MLA, and Chicago Styles.

University Libraries

University Libraries: On copyrights.