Defining and Delimiting ‘the Study’ 5/5
The word ‘study’ can be confusing because it has several meanings, inter alia aninvestigation of certain phenomena,…
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How to Submit a Paper to a Journal: Guide for Mathematicians
n the later stages of your doctoral studies in Mathematics, one of the important things you will need to do is to…
A Checklist of Academic Writing Features
Academic writing in English is linear, that means it has one central point or theme with every part contributing to…
Six Features of Academic Writing
One of the problems students run into is that they are often expected by their professors to produce a reasonably…
Rules and Conventions of Academic Writing
The details in this hand-out are based on material first developed by Hazel Hall at Queen Margaret University…
Myths about Academic Writing
Though I don’t imagine an episode of MythBusters will be based on the misconceptions about writing we are about to…
Drafting Papers: Figures and Tables
Figures and tables are generally used in the Results section, but they can also be useful for summarizing…
What Editors Want: Paving the Way to Publication
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…examine the scope of the journal and description of its contents before submitting.You might be amazed at…
A strategy to generate text in the early stages of PhD thesis writing
"To write a thesis in a second-language, it is very helpful to break a highly complex set of processes into a…