Support Resources

In-House Resources for Sociology Grad Students

SGSA Lending Library: The current e-board is working to secure course specific teaching manuals from the ASA. More details to come!

Tape Transcriber: Transcriber available for on-campus use during business hours. Accepts standard size cassette tapes. Arrangements can be made through SGSA for off-campus use. See SGSA President or Treasurer for details. (Purchased with GSA Capital Equipment funds)

TV/VCR: Nineteen-inch TV/VCR on a cart for transport to classrooms not equipped with AV equipment. This is stored in the department supply closet. Sign up with Laurie Lanning or Kelly Crean. (Purchased with GSA Capital Equipment funds)

All-But-Dissertation Survival Guide: A newsletter that directs people to teleconferences and coaches related to completing dissertations. Occassionally very useful.

Association for Support of Graduate Students: An organization that does pretty much what it says. Also host to the moderated Doc-Talk mailing list about doing theses/dissertations.
Dead Thesis Society: A support group with a list-serv for people who are stalled out with their thesis/dissertation because of a lack of motivation or frustration with making little or no progress.
Online Application to Candidacy: The Adobe Acrobat online application to candidacy. You need to fill one of these out before you get started on your master's project/thesis or your doctoral dissertation.
PhinisheD: A message board for people who are having trouble with their dissertations or theses.

Critical and Multicultural Pedagogy Cooperative for Teaching Resources: Compilation of projects and exercises to be used in teaching material from a multicultural perspective.
Teaching and Learning Resources: A series of teaching resources compiled by the Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty Development.
World Lecture Hall: A collection of on-line teaching resources from around the world.
Teaching Sociology for Beginners: The companion web site for a workshop that some of us ran at the 2000 ASA meetings in Washington, DC.

Evaluation Resources on the Web: Compiled by Ya-Lin Liu and Gene Shackman
NSF Guide for Proposal Writing: Available in ASCII, HTML, and Adobe Acrobat formats.

Proposal Writer's Guide: Guide to writing grant proposals from University of Michigan.
Qualitative Research Discussion Lists: A list compiled by Judith Preissle, reproduced in hypertext for your convenience.
Web Directory: Repositories of Primary Sources: A large listing of places and organizations that maintain archives of primary sources. Excellent for historical and other research requiring access to original manuscripts and artifacts.
Community of Science: Directory of academics from a variety of disciplines and specialty areas.

Common Errors: A short list of errors that are so common that they're often not recognized as errors.
Copyediting-L Style FAQ: A frequently asked questions list from the copyediting-l discussion list. Anal-retentiveness abounds, but it addresses a number of common writing concerns.
William Strunk Jr.'s Elements of Style: The definitive guide to clear and concise writing. Available for free online through Project Bartleby.
Grammar Girl's Guide to the English Language: Grammar Girl guides you through some of the vagaries of the English language in fine superheroine fashion.
Guide to Grammar and Style: An alphabetized reference list of terms and rules. Don't know what a split infinitive is? Look here!
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Rules and issues to consider when writing. Cleverly organized by levels: sentence level, paragraph level, essay level. Other interesting resources also available here.


AddALL Book Searching and Price Comparison: A search engine that compares the prices of books across 32 or so on-line booksellers to help you get the best possible price. Good for buying stats or theory books, since these can get expensive!
Best Book Buys: Same basic idea as AddALL, but searches about 26 booksellers.
Bookpool.com: A super-cheap on-line bookstore for computer books. Also sells some manuals for statistical software (primarily SAS). Excellent prices on web-desing and programming titles.
Free Application for Federal Student Aid: You can now fill out your FAFSA application online or you can obtain and print out the forms from the U.S. Department of Education FAFSA web site. Very convenient, especially for financial aid procrastinators. To fill out the online version, you need to obtain an electronic access code -- this can take a couple of weeks.
Graduate Student Employees Union: The Buffalo branch of the formal negotiating and representative arm of the graduate assistants and teaching assistants throughout the SUNY system.
How to Enjoy a Convention: A brief, practical guide for making the best of your experience at a professional conference.
National Association of Graduate- Professional Students: A national organization devoted to advocating for the rights of graduate and professional students.
College of Arts and Sciences Graduate Student Funding Page: Listing of funding resources for graduate students in the social sciences.

Copyright 1998. Sociology Graduate Student Association.
Please direct comments and questions about this site to Tim Sentman .
Viewpoints expressed on this page are not necessarily those of the UB Sociology Department, the College of Arts and Sciences, the University at Buffalo, or the SUNY system.
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