Can you see your research in three dimensions?
Getting off-screen and looking at your research in two and three dimensions can help you see the ‘big picture’ more clearly.
In this blog aimed at academic staff, postdocs and postgraduate researchers, Consultant Fellows share useful writing development activities.
In this blog aimed at academic staff, postdocs and postgraduate researchers, Consultant Fellows share useful writing development activities.
Getting off-screen and looking at your research in two and three dimensions can help you see the ‘big picture’ more clearly.
Whatever the format of your PhD, you can adapt your work to publish it in academic journals.
Tutors can teach critical thinking to all students, and it is best to introduce it from the start of their university journey. Offering skills training at the beginning of the course provides a framework for students who are new to critical thinking and helps more experienced students to achieve highly.
Even if you feel safer with the passive voice, consider how you might use the occasional active sentence to liven up your writing.
Ten-minute bursts aren’t miracle cures for writing challenges, but they are powerful, uncomplicated tools in the writer’s armoury.
When we edit, most of us simply read the text, line by line, correcting as we go. But it can be more effective to read for one kind of fault at a time.
Flow is never a problem if you know what your argument is, you can identify the points and you know which order they should take.
Ideas tend to come when we’re not racking our brains. They surprise us when the mind is relaxed and wandering over our material.
Use focussed tasks to turn editing from a fuzzy, depressing process into a proactive, task-based operation with clear goals.
Academic writing is a significant challenge for predominantly visual thinkers. Here are some ways to help them to convert an explosion of connected ideas into a linear format.