Graduate Student Research Support

"You don't know what you don't know." An expression we often hear at graduate student orientations.

Graduate school offers an opportunity to deepen your expertise in a given discipline. As you work through your courses and move into your research phase, there are numerous things you can do to help establish yourself as a scholar. This guide attempts to provide a bit of guidance in the following areas:

1. Reading, writing & citing
2. Managing research data
3. Understanding various types of analysis
4. Developing a scholarly identity and understanding the publishing process

These areas are all parts of the research lifecyle.

Image taken from Navigating the Research Lifecycle for the Modern Researcher, 2024

We try to highlight steps that may be less explicit in the process of generating scholarship. Please use the menu to the left to navigate the guide.

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