Creating visual maps, diagrams and models
Author: Dr Lyn Lavery, Director, Academic Consulting (www.academic-consulting.co.nz) A recent post on the NVivo blog reminded me of how useful I find models, diagrams, and visual maps in my research and […]
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Improve your Writing Ability
Author: Abhimanyu Singh Garhwal This is an online freely available 8 week course by Stanford University US for improving your writing ability: https://class.stanford.edu/courses/Medicine/SciWrite/Fall2013/about. be happy Abhimanyu
Are you just stuck or are you really scared of writing?
Author: Julia Hallas, Doctoral Candidate If you’re experiencing procrastination, depression, all-nighters and melt-downs… join me in my quest for the best writing tips. It’s good to be smiling. You’ve been […]
Organising your dissertation stuff effectively
Author: Julia Hallas, Doctoral Candidate If you’re experiencing procrastination, depression, all-nighters and melt-downs… join me in my quest for the best writing tips. My desk has been piling up with […]
Make your writing space work for you
Author: Julia Hallas, Doctoral Candidate If you’re experiencing procrastination, depression, all-nighters and melt-downs… join me in my quest for the best writing tips. What’s your writing space like? Do you […]
Surviving the lit review
At the very beginning, my idea of doing a literature review was like this; Read some literature, read some more literature, ponder, read some more literature, read some more literature, […]
A guide to presenting empirical research
Author: Professor John Bitchener Once the research is over, the question of exactly how to write each chapter of a thesis or dissertation remains. This invaluable guide introduces first-time thesis […]
The experience of participating in a Research Writing Retreat
Author: Maggie Buxton, PhD Candidate The tide is coming in rippling across the sand in hazy shades of white, blue and grey. I am writing this on the last morning […]
The adventure of exploration…
Author: Daniel Reader (Master of Engineering student) When all of the fun of experiments, interviews, design, development, and research is over, the writing remains. And it is, I think, universally […]
Apps for writing your thesis
A piece of advice given to postgrad students everywhere is “write every day.” It’s great advice. We should all do it, but some of us find it hard. If you’re […]
Who is your reader?
When you are writing a thesis or a dissertation, there is always someone else in the room with you. Or, at least, I believe there should be. That person is […]
Writing Skills
John Kenneth Galbraith, economist, diplomat, and public intellectual, was renowned for the clarity of his writing. Using this skill, he was able to communicate complex ideas to a wide audience. […]