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When reading makes you feel like an imposter

What these students show is they see reading as an intelligence test. (To be fair, they probably learned this from school.) As a graduate student, they have been a ‘smart’ person all their life, but maybe now they are not smart, or not smart enough.

academic culture, imposter syndrome, learning, reading

How do you get from “pre-research” to search, and then research?

Last time I posted about “pre-research”, I talked about moving from pre-research into searching and then researching for a literature review. I … More

article, reading, Research

Wikipedia, Dictionaries, Encyclopaedias and “pre-research”

We all know academic writing “shouldn’t quote Wikipedia”… but what we often get wrong is why it’s not ‘the done … More

planning, reading, Research

The Times Higher Education Blog reposts ‘The five biggest reading mistakes’

Katherine Firth on why you should approach texts less like a Victorian maiden and more like a pirate hero. One … More

academia, reading, recommendations

So here are the 5 biggest reading mistake I see—and how to avoid them.

Often we think we’ve learned to read by the time we were about eight.  We know that we have to continue … More

note taking, notes, Perfectionism, reading

Should you write from day one?

One of the most problematic pieces of advice I see is the suggestion that you should ‘write from day one’ … More

academic writing, literature review, note taking, reading

Embodied learning & its productive limitations

It’s funny, we talk about limitations as if they were a bad thing. As if eternity and infinity and boundlessness … More

note taking, notes, reading

Turn your notes into writing using the Cornell method

One of my favourite bloggers is Inger Mewburn, The Thesis Whisperer.  We had coffee one afternoon last year, and I … More

note taking, reading, Research

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