General Case Study Resources

These general resources on writing case studies may be helpful to your process.

Case Studies in Higher Education

• Defining, Creating and Using Case Studies - Carnegie-Mellon University (Eberly Centre).
• Using Case Studies to Teach - Boston University
• Teaching With Case Studies - Stanford University

Writing Case Studies

• Writing Case Studies: Carnegie Mellon University.
• Case Writing Guide for Students - World Association for Case Method Research and Application (WACRA). Although written for students who are researching and preparing cases at a high level of detail - it contains useful information about types of cases and their purposes, ethical concerns and the 4 basic components of a case.
• Cases That Sing - WACRA - short piece highlighting the 4 ingredients for engaging cases.
• A Biased Opinion About Bias and Opinion - WACRA. A short piece describing how bias creeps into case writing and how to avoid it.

Student Guide to Writing Case Studies

• Ethics Case Writing Guidelines - Illinois Institute of Technology

Reviewing Case Studies

• Elements of the Review Ready Case - World Association for Case Method Research and Application

Wiki Support

7 Things About Wikis About the UBCWiki Help and Support	Basic Formatting Formatting Tables Footnotes and References	Adding Images Embedding Video Embedding Slides	Adding a Sandbox Page Renaming or Moving a Page Upload a new version of a file	Open Licenses Attributing Open Licensed Material Searching for Open Education Resources Citing Resources in the Wiki

Question Boxes

• here is the mark up for a box that you can use to draw attention to questions that you want students to grapple with.

Questions add your questions here one on each line