Online

• Advice on Research and Writing - Carnegie Mellon University
• Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
• American Educational Research Association (AERA)
• Army Research Office (ARO)
• Association for the Support of Graduate Students
• Becoming Part of the Research Community
• Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Grant Tutorial
• Center for Statistical Consultation and Research (CSCAR)
• Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
• Dissertation and Thesis Tips - Association for Support of Graduate Students, 2004
• Division of Research Development and Administration (DRDA) - UM office to assist faculty and staff members in all aspects of externally funded research projects and other scholarly activities
• The Foundation Center's Virtual Classroom
• Graduate Research: A Guide for Students in the Sciences - Robert V. Smith, 1998
• How to Give an Academic Talk - Paul N. Edwards, UM School of Information, 2001
• How Not to Kill a Grant Application, Part 6: Developing Your Research Plan - Vid Mohan-Ram, Science Next Wave, 2000
• How to Write a PhD Thesis - Joe Wolfe, School of Physics, University of New South Wales, Sydney, 2003
• Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
• Making the Right Moves: A Practical Guide to Scientific Management for Post-docs and New Faculty - by Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 2004
• NASA Headquarters Research Announcements
• National Institutes of Health: Award Data
• National Institutes of Health: Career Development Awards
• National Institute of Standards and Technology Laboratories
• National Science Foundation: Award Search
• National Science Foundation: Faculty Early Career (CAREER) Development Program
• National Science Foundation: Grant Proposal Guide
• Naval Research Laboratory
• Persisting and Surviving the Journal Review Process - James Walsh, Organizational Science, UM; Mark Mizruchi, Administrative Science Quarterly, UM; Yitzhak Fried, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Wayne State University, 2000
• PhinisheD - A discussion and support group for people who cannot seem to finish their dissertations or theses
• Proposal Writing Guides
• RefWorks - A web-based bibliography and database manager
• Research in Engineering at UM
• Sandia National Laboratories
• Thesis and Dissertation Resources - UM Rackham Graduate School
• ThomasNet - a database of 158,000 manufacturers of industrial products and services
• UM's Sweetland Writing Center - provides writing workshops, peer tutoring, writing resources
• Subject Guide on Foundations and Grants - UM Library Funding Resources

Books

• * Advice for a Young Investigator, by Ramon Santiago, 1999
• * At the Helm: A Laboratory Navigator, by Kathy Barker, 2002
• The clockwork muse: A practical guide to writing theses, dissertations, and books, by Eviatar Zerubavel, 1999
• Graduate Research: A Guide for Students in the Sciences, by Robert V. Smith, 1998
• * Guide to the successful dissertation and thesis: A handbook for student and faculty, by James Mauch and Jack Birch, 1998
• How to complete and survive a doctoral dissertation, by David Sternberg, 1981
• How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper, by Robert A. Day, 1998
• Persist and Publish: Helpful Hints for Academic Writing and Publishing, by Ralph E. Matkin and T. F. Rigger, 1991
• Proposals that work: A guide for planning dissertations and grant proposals, by Lawrence Locke, Waneen Wyrick Spirduso, and Stephen Silverman, 2000
• Secrets for a successful dissertation, by Jacqueline Fitzpatrick, Jan Secrist, and Debra Wright, 1998
• Successful dissertations and theses: A guide to graduate student research from proposal to completion, by David Madsen, 1992
• Surviving your dissertation: A comprehensive guide to content and process, by Kjell Erik Rudestam and Rae Newton, 1992
• Writing the doctoral dissertation: A systematic approach, by Gordon Bitter Davis, 1997
• Writing the qualitative dissertation: Understanding by doing, by Judith Meloy, 1994
• * Writing Successful Science Proposals, by Andrew J. Friedland and Carol L. Folt, 2000
• Writing the winning dissertation: A step-by-step guide, by Allan Glatthorn, 1998
• Writing your dissertation in 15 minutes a day: A guide to starting, revising, and finishing your doctoral thesis, by Joan Bolker, 1998
  
  * Available for lending from the Office of Graduate Education.  Go to http://www.engin.umich.edu/students/services/support/library.html for more information.