Writing a research lay summary

In academia we learn to write abstracts, but we do not learn how to write plain language, lay summaries. It is a skill we could all do with ...

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The IT myths we still believe

Reported by TechRepublic, a survey by HighSpeedInternet.com found that computer users in the USA hold onto some outdated ideas about techn...

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Getting information under the OIA

Recently, after asking a government department for some information which I knew they held and being told that they couldn't/wouldn...

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Knowledge versus Information

I read a great quote the other day, from Canadian novelist, Louise Penny. In one of her Inspector Gamache novels, " Bury Your Dead ...

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