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  1. Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day: A Guide to Starting, Revising, and Finishing Your Doctoral Thesis (my reading notes) May 16, 2018

    Posted in academia, PhD training, research.

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

    Posted in academia, research, writing.

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  3. 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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  4. Two methods for writing a paper outline: Answering questions and listing topic sentences March 17, 2018

    Posted in academia.

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

    Posted in academia, writing.

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

    Posted in academia, writing.

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  7. Writing a book review December 26, 2017

    Posted in academia, writing.

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  8. Writing Without Bullshit: Boost Your Career by Saying What You Mean (my reading notes) December 23, 2017

    Posted in academia, writing.

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  9. 3 strategies to catch up when you fall behind on your writing November 4, 2017

    Posted in academia, research, writing.

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  10. On the importance of gradually building an academic writing practice November 1, 2017

    Posted in academia, writing.

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  11. On the fine balance between crafting new ideas and fighting writers’ block September 11, 2017

    Posted in academia.

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  12. Professors as Writers (Robert Boice) – my reading notes September 6, 2017

    Posted in academia, writing.

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  13. A step-by-step guide to writing a research paper, from idea to full manuscript June 30, 2017

    Posted in academia, writing.

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  14. Distinguishing between description and analysis in academic writing May 7, 2017

    Posted in academia, writing.

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  15. 6 strategies to focus on writing (or research) January 9, 2017

    Posted in academia.

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  16. Reverse-planning (backcasting) a paper (or a research project) December 31, 2016

    Posted in academia, productivity, research, research methods, writing.

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  17. Mind mapping as a strategic research and writing tool December 22, 2016

    Posted in academia, research, writing.

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  18. Using the rhetorical precis for literature reviews and conceptual syntheses October 24, 2016

    Posted in academia, writing.

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  19. The 30 minute challenge: Achieving short-term goals July 29, 2016

    Posted in academia.

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  20. My #PMRC2016 talk on how to #GetYourManuscriptOut June 23, 2016

    Posted in academia, writing.

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  21. How to respond to reviewer comments: The Drafts Review Matrix June 23, 2016

    Posted in academia, writing.

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  22. Synthesizing different bodies of work in your literature review: The Conceptual Synthesis Excel Dump (CSED) technique June 17, 2016

    Posted in academia, research.

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  23. How to do a literature review: Citation tracing, concept saturation and results’ mind-mapping June 15, 2016

    Posted in academia, research, research methods.

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  24. My own workflow: Strategically reading and summarizing the literature June 2, 2016

    Posted in academia, writing.

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  25. 8 sequential steps to write a first rough draft of a research paper from start to finish (relatively quick and easy) April 16, 2016

    Posted in academia.

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