Style checks for PhDs and creative non-fiction writers

The top 10 ways to assess your paragraphs or sentences
Why academic CVs (or résumés) are distinctive

On the exceptionalism of academic CVs: objective, comprehensive, checkable in detail
How to write a blogpost from your journal article

Time devoted to writing a blog post is not time away from research

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Writing, Planning and Style

Top Ten style checks for PhDs or creative non-fiction writers

July 17th, 2017

Fair comment in academia

July 17th, 2017

Storyboarding research

July 17th, 2017

How to write paragraphs in research texts (articles, books and PhDs)

July 17th, 2017
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Best of LSE Impact blog on planning and style

Writing Articles

Seven upgrade strategies for a problematic article or chapter

July 31st, 2014

Are you an academic hermit?

March 1st, 2014

Writing informative abstracts for journal articles

February 16th, 2014

Why do academics and PhDers carefully choose useless titles for articles and chapters?

January 31st, 2014

Best of LSE Impact blog on writing articles

Writing research books and PhD theses

Seven questions to ask about how your chapter ends

February 12th, 2014

In a PhD or academic book, do you really need a Methodology chapter early on?

February 6th, 2014

Why do academics and PhDers carefully choose useless titles for articles and chapters?

January 31st, 2014

Top Ten questions to ask about your chapter start

January 29th, 2014

Best of LSE Impact blog on writing research books and PhD theses

Upgrading Text

Storyboarding research

July 17th, 2017

Seven upgrade strategies for a problematic article or chapter

July 31st, 2014

What is paragraph re-planning?

June 26th, 2014

The ‘build, blur, corrode’ (BBC) test can help you edit new writing

January 27th, 2014

Best of LSE Impact blog on upgrading text

Doing PhD work

Top ten questions for the PhD oral exam

February 11th, 2014

In a PhD or academic book, do you really need a Methodology chapter early on?

February 6th, 2014

Why do academics and PhDers carefully choose useless titles for articles and chapters?

January 31st, 2014

In a book or PhD, start each chapter cleanly. Never link back

January 24th, 2014

Best of LSE Impact blog on doing PhD work

Academic Impacts and Careers

Should your academic CV (or résumé) go digital, at last?

April 28th, 2015

Why academic CVs (or résumés) are distinctive

April 25th, 2015

Assessing your research and publication choices

March 21st, 2015

All academic books must go digital

September 28th, 2014

Best of LSE Impact blog on impacts and careers

Data, Figures and Attention Points

How should you be recording citations in the digital era?

July 16th, 2014

How to report data in a way that readers need to know

June 9th, 2014

Designing ‘attention points’ in academic work

March 20th, 2014

Best of LSE Impact blog on data and figures

Writing Blogs

How to write a blogpost from your journal article

May 18th, 2015

All academic books must go digital

September 28th, 2014

Shorter, better, faster, free

September 11th, 2014

Are you an academic hermit?

March 1st, 2014

Best of LSE Impact blog on writing blogs

Reviews and citations in the digital era

Doing a Quick Literature Review

December 8th, 2014

Poor citation practices are a form of academic self-harm in the humanities and social sciences

October 27th, 2014

How should you be recording citations in the digital era?

July 16th, 2014

Academic citation practices need to be modernized

April 16th, 2014

Best of LSE Impact blog on reviews and citations in the digital era