The Center for Research and Doctoral Studies
Welcome Message from the Dean of The Graduate School, Jeffery Green, Ph.D.
The entire team of CRDS is thrilled to welcome you to this new semester! We provide some guidelines to assist you in writing your publications. The CRDS was launched to support student research across campus as HCU launches it doctoral studies.
This area provides updated information regarding lab services, academic writing, and events. We hope to be part of your educational journey. If you have further questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.
APA Style and Chicago Style Manual Guide: Links and Introduction
The American Psychological Association initiated the APA style to establish a set of norms for publications. It includes a series of standards to assist researchers or authors in achieving precise, exact, and remarkable writings. Individuals from psychology, nursing, education, business, engineering, and other disciplines utilize it to prepare scholarly papers, dissertations, and thesis manuscripts.
HCU Moody Library offers links, tips and video resources on how to write academic and professional papers. Click here to access the webpage.
The Chicago Manual of Style (CMOS) offers diverse information on preparing manuscript, documentation, usage, and grammar accessibility. It is considered the “editor’s bible”, and it is an essential tool for editors, proofreaders, copywriters, publishers, and designers.
The Chicago-style source citations address two styles:
- The notes and bibliography system is mostly preferred by students and professionals in the humanity field; literature, history, and the arts. Citation is done in numbered footnotes or endnotes and a separate bibliography.
2. The author-date system is applied mainly in the sciences and social sciences settings. Citation sources are cited in the text, in parentheses, indicating the author’s last name and year of publication.
Author-date Sample paper
More information could be found on The Chicago Manual of Style Online
Are you still unsure of which style to use? Click here
How we Support Graduate Students
Houston Christian University students and faculty members may access this area for information regarding dissertations and theses. In addition, the writing lab is opened to graduate students and faculty members conducting research or preparing manuscripts for publications, grants, original research, and professional presentations.
Professional Editing Services
Houston Christian University does not advise or recommend any particular editor. The institution is also not liable for changes in enlisted editors’ contact information. Please contact the editors directly to set protocols and pay rates.
Dissertation editors listed here are independent contractors, not employees or affiliates of the graduate school.
The Statistical Laboratory offers statistical consultations and testing tools to advance statistical research conducted at Houston Christian University.
The lab assists with complex statistical analysis and helps develop data frameworks that will assist graduate students in interpreting experimental outcomes when working on their manuscripts and professional presentations.
The research process involves various steps, and dependent on your acquaintance with a topic, an efficient strategy is required to write a research paper. The Center for Research and Doctoral Studies equips students through this process by providing them with all the resources available in accomplishing their desired outcomes.
Learn more about how to start your research process by contacting your professor.
Houston Christian University offers doctoral students an institutional repository for dissertations and theses. DARIUS is a platform that collects and preserves digital dissertations and theses.
APA workshops, Conferences, Stats and Tats
The Center for Research and Doctoral Studies offers students APA workshops to assist them in writing and editing academic papers. Please click here to see what is new.
Other APA and non-APA events, workshops, and conferences offered by the American Psychological Association could be found here.
The Center for Research and Doctoral Studies helps students find the appropriate conference that meets their needs and interests. Over the past years, we provided a resource guide to assist students and faculty in finding a conference of their choice.
This Conference Excel Sheet consists of conferences that address topics on Education, Psychology, Behavior Sciences and Christianity.
Do you need help with your statistics class or analyzing your quantitative study?
We can assist you! Dr. Pelletier organizes and makes learning sampling, research methodologies, and other topics simple!
This online session will provide you with a complete introduction to statistics and some quick and easy techniques for writing your dissertation.
Click this link to watch fun ways to learn Stats and Tats!
We are located at Hinton Building 312. Use the map to assist you in finding the CRDS lab.
