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English Research Guide

Assignment Support


There are a variety of resources available to support you with your assignments, no matter where you are in the research or writing process.

Common Assignments

These resources can help you develop, structure, and refine your personal or narrative essays by offering guidance, examples, and strategies for effective storytelling.

These resources can help you write a strong rhetorical analysis by guiding you in identifying an author’s strategies, evaluating their effectiveness, and organizing your interpretation.

These resources can help you create effective annotated bibliographies by guiding you in selecting credible sources, summarizing their key points, and evaluating their relevance to your research.

Research Projects

These resources can help you write a literature review by guiding you in synthesizing research, identifying scholarly conversations, and organizing sources into a coherent analysis.

These resources can help you write a research paper by supporting you through the process of developing a question, finding and evaluating sources, and organizing your ideas into a clear, evidence-based argument.

These resources can help you write a dissertation by guiding you through developing your research focus, reviewing literature, collecting and analyzing data, and presenting your findings in a structured, scholarly format.

Multimodal or Digital Projects


UNT Libraries offers One Button Studios which are simple, user-friendly recording spaces designed for projects like presentations, podcasting, and practicing class presentations. It allows you to easily record and save your work with minimal technical setup.

Reserving a Studio

Use the online scheduling tool to reserve a One Button Studio (Bass). You will need to login with your EUID and password.

  • Booths are available whenever Willis Library is open for 2 hours at a time.
  • Check out at the Spark with your UNT ID. A Spark employee will accompany you to the booth at check-out and check-in.
  • Bass studio must be reserved at least 48 hours in advance. Request will be approved after review if proper training has been completed by the requester.
  • Note: Training is required before using the recording booths.