Using our own experience in academic writing

While there is a place for personal experiences in writing up research, often in an introduction section - for explaining why a particular i...

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Blyton and the librarians

I was idly reflecting recently about writers who have a formative impact on our young minds. I wondered if - for those of us in the Commonw...

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A fragmented project outline

When we are putting together a project plan, we need to be really careful about what words we chose. We need to ensure that the language we ...

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Little Quick Fixes

SAGE Publications in the UK has put out a GREAT range of bite-sized books on a range of research topics. These have been coming off the pres...

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Research proposal alignment

One thing that I find many research students struggle to get their heads around is that all the elements of the research proposal for their ...

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Literature review methodology

Once we start collecting our own data, I suspect we can become so fixated on our primary data collection methods that we run the risk of fai...

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Giving our power away

One regular piece of feedback I find I give my students is about giving their power away. This is, of course, based on the feedback I had fr...

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Argument - find the gap

In academic writing, and particularly in the literature review, we are "seeing fault, error or other possibilities in the work of anoth...

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Keyword Search

I mentioned in the last post about search operators ( here ), which I picked up from an Academy of Management virtual conference session, in...

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Database search operators

It is so good to get a refresher on basic knowledge, isn't it?! I attended the Academy of Management virtual conference in 2020, and stu...

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Types of literature review

A colleague of mine was answering a conference RFP recently for a review paper presentation, and suddenly went blank on how to write up meth...

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