Student Resources
Writing Services & Reading/Writing Guidelines
The Sanger Learning & Career Center's Graduate Student Writing Service is the only all-inclusive graduate writing assistance available on campus. You may bring in a paper, thesis, dissertation, grant proposal - any writing project in any discipline - and get immediate feedback for improving your work. Click here to schedule a consultation.
- Black Studies Guide to Critical Reading (.pdf)
- Black Studies Guide to Writing a Graduate Level Paper (.pdf)
- AADS Guide to Course Participation (.pdf)
- Sanger Learning & Career Center Guide to Critical Reading (.pdf)
- Sanger Learning & Career Center Guide to Revising Drafts (.pdf)
Thesis Resources
Format Guidelines for Master's Theses and Reports (.pdf)
The Graduate School distributes a set of thesis and dissertation templates in Microsoft Word for Apple and Windows computers, which will help you format your paper according to current requirements.
Templates
These Microsoft Word templates provide styles, manage margins, place page numbers properly, and provide the necessary elements and instruction for creating your thesis or dissertation and assembling it in the correct order.
To download these free templates, please select the template for your operating system and version of Microsoft Word.
Windows Thesis/Dissertation Templates
Mac OS X Thesis/Dissertation Templates
The following user guide is provided to assist you in using the templates.
Using the Thesis and Dissertation Templates (.pdf)
Fellowship Resources
- Externally Funded Fellowships
- Graduate School Continuing Fellowships
- Editorial Assistantships
- National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships
- Ford Foundation Predoctoral and Dissertation Fellowship
Employment Resources
- Guidelines for Summer Employment for Graduate Student Employees (.pdf)
- Insurance and Benefits for Student Employees
- Full and Part-Time Jobs For Students
- Finding a Student Job with the University
- Graduate Student Employment
- Student Non-Academic Employment
International Students
- Federal Tax Filing Support
- Insurance
- Social Security & ITINS
- Financial Aid
- International Teaching Assistants & Assistant Instructors
- Forms
New International Students
- Pre-arrival Checklist
- Financial Requirements
- Immigration Information
- Check-in & Orientation
- Housing in Austin
- Immunization & TB Requirements
Research Resources
- The Harry Ransom Center (collections in European literature, history, religion, and science)
- The Benson Latin American Collection is a specialized research library focusing on materials from and about Latin America, and on materials relating to Latinos in the United States.
- The Perry-Castaneda Library is the University's main research library. It embraces all subject fields, with the strongest holdings in the humanities, social sciences, business, and education. It is the nineth largest research library in the United States.
- The Lyndon Baines Johnson Library is one of thirteen presidential libraries administered by the National Archives and Record Administration. The Library houses forty-five million pages of historical documents which include papers from the entire public career of Lyndon Baines Johnson and also from those of close associates.
- The Briscoe Center for American History is a history research center that collects, preserves, and makes available documentary and material culture evidence encompassing key themes in Texas and U.S. history.
- The Tarlton Law Library is the fifth-largest academic law library in the U.S. and houses documents on state, U.S., foriegn, and international law.
- The Black Queer Studies Collection (BQSC) is a virtual gathering of works now accessible through key word searches in the University of Texas catalog. Created through a unique collaboration between Professor Matt Richardson and the UT Libraries, the BQSC is the first of its kind and indicates the importance of critical library interventions as scholarly tools.
