Resources FOR FACULTY

Benefits of Honors Contracts

• HTP Website Description of Benefits

• Multimedia Slides

Filtering and Recruiting Honors Students

•  Sample student questionnaire 

Supporting Honors Students from the Start

• Proposals

  • Contract Proposal Guidelines

  • Contract Proposal Examples

  • Sample Interim Due Dates

  • How to Write Strong Research Questions

  • Checklist for Proposals

• Starting and Organizing Writing

  • Systematic Note Taking

  • The Great Peter Elbow on the Power of Effective Freewriting Strategy

  • Brainstorming Strategies

  • Sample Honors Research Paper Outlines

  • Research Paper Outline Template from Sarah Harmon

  • Pre-writing and Outlining: Outstanding Resource from Maureen Wiley in the Writing Center

  • USE THE WRITING CENTER THROUGHOUT!!!

  • See the Writing Center Resources

• Drafting Honors Research Papers

  • Every Honors student writer should read: Anne Lamott's Shitty First Drafts

  • Drafting Techniques and Mishaps Activity

• Analyzing Research

  • Sample Size Needs

  • For analyzing results: When to use Qualifiers, and Hedging language resource from SJSU*

Leveraging IDST 150 Honors Research Seminar Throughout

• IDST 150 Honors Research Seminar 1 Minute Overview Video

• IDST 150 1 Minute Student Testimonial from Arya Shadan (transfer student to Stanford) Hear Arya’s  IDST “backbone” concept

• Sample IDST Interim Assignments and Due Dates (spring 2024)

Sample and Model Honors Papers

• Compilation of Successful Honors Research Papers by Discipline

• Published Honors Papers

Supporting Students in Finishing their Research Papers and Presenting

• Editing Strategies Slides

• Scaffolding the Final Parts and Beating Procrastination

• Honors Conference Presentation opportunities

• Honors Publication opportunities

How to Get Compensation for Honors Contract Work

• Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)

• See Ray Lapuz or Rebekah Taveau for a timesheet

• Additional

• Interviews: Professor Harmon, Linguistics & Spanish, and Professor Luu, Biology on supporting Honors  Contract students

• Interview with Professor Michael Stanford, History

• Historic Resources on the Honors Website