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Category Archives: writing

  1. Does “writing every day” work? January 21, 2019

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  2. Taking stock as a motivational strategy: Sum up what you’ve accomplished, not what you haven’t done December 30, 2018

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  3. A brief guide to using Mendeley as a reference and citation manager and as an aid to write scholarly papers December 8, 2018

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  4. Note-taking techniques I: The index card method November 28, 2018

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  5. Writing topic sentences and crafting paragraphs October 25, 2018

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  6. Writing journal articles from a doctoral dissertation September 28, 2018

    Posted in academia, research, writing.

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  7. Destination Dissertation A Traveler’s Guide to a Done Dissertation (my reading notes) September 18, 2018

    Posted in academia, graduate school, research, writing.

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  8. Complete Your Dissertation or Thesis in Two Semesters or Less (my reading notes) September 18, 2018

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  9. How to write the conclusion of a paper August 31, 2018

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  10. Work Your Career: Get What You Want from Your Social Sciences or Humanities PhD (my reading notes) August 24, 2018

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  11. How to Write a Thesis (Umberto Eco) – my reading notes August 23, 2018

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  12. The Dissertation ‘Two Pager’: A strategy to sustain a “big picture” view of a doctoral thesis August 9, 2018

    Posted in academia, research, research methods, writing.

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  13. Writing for Peer Reviewed Journals: Strategies for Getting Published (Kamler/Thomson) – my reading notes August 1, 2018

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  14. How to write an abstract for a paper July 18, 2018

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  15. How to write a book chapter July 11, 2018

    Posted in academia, research, writing.

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  16. How to Complete and Survive a Doctoral Dissertation (my reading notes) May 20, 2018

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  17. Writing the Doctoral Dissertation: A Systematic Approach (my reading notes) May 18, 2018

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  18. On Writing (Stephen King) (my reading notes) May 17, 2018

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  19. Thinking Like Your Editor (Rabiner & Fortunato) – my reading notes April 29, 2018

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  20. 125-250 words, 15 minutes: Setting small writing goals to build an academic writing practice April 13, 2018

    Posted in academia, productivity, research, writing.

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  21. Write No Matter What: Advice for Academics (Joli Jensen) – my reading notes March 24, 2018

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  22. Forward citation tracing and backwards citation tracing in literature reviews February 3, 2018

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  23. How to write the introduction to a research paper February 2, 2018

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  24. Mapping a new field of scholarship January 27, 2018

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  25. Legitimising reading as a crucial component of academic writing January 12, 2018

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