Chinese Studies

This handbook provides general information on degree requirements as well as academic standards, policies, and procedures

This is the electronic version of the17th edition of the Manual (2017). ASURITE ID and password are required.

Print version. Available in 7 ASU libraries. The eighth edition (2016) of the MLA Handbook is the authoritative source for MLA style.

This manual is designed to assist graduate students who must produce a thesis, dissertation or equivalent under the supervision of their committee chair and successfully defend it as part of their degree requirements. This manual identifies Arizona State University’s specific format requirements and contains instructions for meeting these requirements.

Its webpage on "Research and Citation Resources" provides basic guidance on different citation styles.

The Online Dissertation Writing Camp is available to ASU doctoral students who are working on writing their prospectus for defense or who have reached candidacy in an ASU doctoral program.

Graduate students can work with graduate writing consultants at any stage of the writing process to hone their writing skills

Every semester, the Graduate Writing Centers will host special workshops and webinars on graduate students' dissertation writing, conference proposal, literature review, and more.

The Yale Graduate Writing Lab has collected a number of useful resources and samples from prospectus to dissertation for your reference.