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So How to Fix your Academic Writing Trouble has just arrived in the publisher’s warehouse, which means it’s nearly ready to send out into the world! (Want
So How to Fix your Academic Writing Trouble has just arrived in the publisher’s warehouse, which means it’s nearly ready to send out into the world! (Want
This is a reflection on the form of a writing genre and what that means. I started thinking about it about a year ago, on
I have a lot of issues with TurnItIn and it’s researcher version Authenticate. (There is also a moral argument, which is very valid! but I’m just talking here about the fact that, as tools, they don’t really work). So it’s not surprising that TurnItIn is wrong about plagiarism’s past too.
By the time your academic writing is ready to be published, it’s a tough nut, a rose hip, a thick-skinned firm grapefruit. It’s ready to
There are no right answers here, but the true answer to the question ‘how many drafts should I expect to write’ is ‘probably more than
Sometimes I realise that an important idea I’ve been talking about, almost since the beginning of the blog, has never had a post of it’s
Are you over video calls? Are email and quick messages too distanced? Is it currently difficult or impossible for you to catch up with colleagues
Students who don’t speak English as their first language are often very worried about writing an 80-100,000 word thesis. And many supervisors are also worried
One of the things all researchers have to face is, occasionally, a difficult meeting. It might be a meeting with your supervisor where you haven’t produced
I know most of my blog is about academic writing for theses, books and journal articles, but there is another form of academic writing that