Resources
Gupta COB Coaching/Tutors
Writing Coach Program
The College of Business Writing Coach can review your draft and give you pointers to help you refine and improve your writing. You can submit your work by email by emailing your request to writingcoach@udallas.edu. Be sure to include a copy of your writing assignment instructions when submitting your paper, project or presentation for review.
Finance/Accounting & Statistics Coaches
The College of Business Finance/Accounting and Statistics coaches can provide assistance with your Finance, Accounting, and Statistics-related coursework. The coaches are available both online and on-campus. The schedules for the coaches and contact information is below:
Note: you can also copy/paste http://goo.gl/gL2x3B into your web browser.
Email the coaches directly:
Writing & Presentation Resources
Citation Guides & Plagiarism Prevention
The College of Business uses the American Psychological Association (APA) Style for citations and references. Please use the resources found below to assist you in preparation of your postings, assignments, papers, projects, etc. If you have questions about the use of APA citation style, you may contact your professor, the Writing Coach, or the UD Library.
APA Citation Style & Examples
Plagiarism: Defined & How to Avoid
PowerPoint Presentation Guides
The Assertion-Evidence Structure for PowerPoint Slide Design
In this video, Dr. Yale examines the weaknesses of typical PowerPoint slide layouts and presents the Assertion-Evidence Structure and how to use it to increase the effectiveness of presentations.
Basic Principles of Slide Design
This video provides basic guidelines for effective use of fonts, colors, images, and animation in PowerPoint slides.
Customizing the Slide Master in PowerPoint
This screencast video provides basic instructions for editing the Slide Master in Microsoft PowerPoint.
Tips for Using Images in PowerPoint
This video provides an overview of basic tools for improving the appearance of graphics in PowerPoint presentation slides.
Research & Survey Resources
UD Protecting Human Research Participants (PHRP) Training
A condition for the required review by the IRB of all research utilizing human research subjects is that all key personnel on such a research project demonstrate training in the ethical conduct of such research and the ethical treatment of human research participants, within the last three years. The UD IRB will accept the certificate generated by successful completion of this training as such evidence for applications submitted for review.
The training will take approximately an hour to 90 minutes to complete. The training can be found at: UD Protecting Human Research Participants.
Qualtrics
Qualtrics is a powerful online survey tool that allows you to build surveys, distribute surveys, and analyze responses from one convenient online location. It's available to all faculty, staff and students at UD.
To create your UD Qualtrics account, please follow the steps below: