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December 27th, 2012

Our top five: How to write

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Estimated reading time: 10 minutes

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December 27th, 2012

Our top five: How to write

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Estimated reading time: 10 minutes

Our posts with tips on how to write proved incredibly popular with our readers this year. Here are our top five most read, in decreasing order, for you to feast your eyes on…

30 tips for successful academic research and writing
Choosing something that you are passionately interested in to research is a great first step on the road to successful academic writing but it can be difficult to keep the momentum going. Deborah Lupton explains how old-fashioned whiteboards and online networking go hand-in-hand, and advices when it is time to just ‘make a start’ or go for a bike ride.

The road to academic success is paved with stylish academic writing
Treat academic writing not as a set of inviolable rules but as a series of stylistic choices, writes Helen Sword, who has found that a conversational yet authoritative tone coupled with attention-getting titles, compelling openings, anecdotes and illustrations is the key to accessible, interesting academic work.

How to bury your academic writing
Book chapters can allow freedom to think about your work in line with broader theoretical issues, but if you’re tempted to write a book chapter for an edited collection, it might be best to reconsider. Dorothy Bishop finds that researchers who write book chapters might as well bury the paper in a hole in their garden. 

More papers, better papers? The curious correlation of quality and quantity in academic publishing
Paul J. Silvia is creeped out by the correlation between quality and quantity in academic publishing, but why do the people who publish the most also publish the work that has greatest influence?

Your essential ‘how-to’ guide to writing good abstracts
Article abstracts typically say little about what the researcher has discovered or what the key findings are, what they are arguing as a ‘bottom line’, or what key ‘take-away points’ they want readers to remember. Here we present a simple ‘how-to’ guide to writing good abstracts.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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