Useful research journals and articles

• How to submit a paper to Educational Resources Information Centre (ERIC).
  Here are all the details on what to do.
• The Social Consequences of Bad Research.
  An article by Daniel Tanner, Rutgers University, Tanner contends that many cases it would seem that school practitioners can test research findings for practicability and generalisability more effectively than some of the editors of the leading educational research journals.
• The Age Education.
  Education supplement of the Melbourne-based newspaper.
• The Australian Higher Education Supplement.
  Education supplement of Australia's national daily newspaper.
• Arts and Letters Daily.
  Philosophy, aesthetics, literature, language, ideas, criticism, culture, history, music, art, trends, breakthroughs, disputes, gossip - the best articles culled from top newspapers and magazines around the world.
• General writing guides include:

Process

• Bailey, R. F. A. (1984). Survival kit for writing in English, Longman Cheshire, Melbourne.
• Lester, J. (1993). Writing research papers. Harper Collins, London.
• Phillips, E. M., & Pugh, D. S. (2000). How to get a PhD: A handbook for students and their supervisors, 3rd ed. Open University Press, Buckingham.
• Taylor, G. (1989). The student's writing guide for the arts and social sciences, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Expression

• Hashimoto, I. R. (1992) Strategies for academic writing: A guide for college students, University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor.
• Peters, P. (1996) The Cambridge Australian English style guide, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne.
• Peters, P. (1985) Strategies for student writers, John Wiley & Sons, Brisbane.
• Strunk, W. & White, E. B. (2000) The elements of style, 4th ed. Allyn & Bacon, Boston.
• Swales, J. M. & Feak, C. B. (1994) Academic writing for graduate students, University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor.
• Construction of the thesis
• Anderson, J. & Poole, M. (2001) Thesis and assignment writing, 4th ed. John Wiley & Sons, Milton, Qld.
• Bell, J. (1999) Doing your research project: A guide for first-time researchers in education and social science, 3rd ed. Open University Press, Buckingham.
• Sharp, J. A. & Howard, K. (1993) The management of a student research project, 2nd ed. Gower Publishing, Aldershot, Hampshire.
• Phillips, E. M. & Pugh, D. S. (2000) How to get a PhD: A handbook for students and their supervisors, Open University Press, Buckingham.
• Rudestam, K. E. & Newton, R. R. (2001) Surviving your dissertation: A comprehensive guide to content and process, 2nd ed. Sage Publishers, Thousand Oaks, CA.

Style and conventions

• Publication manual of the American Psychological Association, (2001) 5th ed. APA, Washington.
• Style manual for authors, editors and printers, (2002) 6th ed. John Wiley & Sons, Milton, Qld.