Hello, everyone!
I am leaving for a short while to a place where I won’t be able to get online too often. Before I go, I would like to leave you some tips for academic writing. Just a few pieces of advice to use over your winter break that will make your essays better.
So, here they are: Continue reading
Academic writing is what they teach you at university. And for university – as well as for the world of work – it’s brilliant and in most cases very useful.
It teaches you to organise your thoughts, to express well-grounded, informed opinions, to format documents in word processors and to draw well-balanced conclusions based on what you’ve discovered. It can help you blog, too. Continue reading
Academic writing is what they teach you at university – it’s all about essays and dissertations. I have quite a bit of experience in academic writing: while still an undergraduate, I published two papers and gave conference presentations. I have also worked as a writing mentor, teaching undergraduate students essay writing skills.
I have drawn a great lesson from my experience:
Despite its very peculiar style, academic writing can teach you a lot about blogging. Continue reading
Every single research paper, academic essay, dissertation and all academic writing that involves working with data, needs a hypothesis.
Now, what is a hypothesis?
The Cambridge Dictionary defines a hypothesis thus: Continue reading
Please see a great instructional video: how to write structured paragraphs in your academic essays and dissertations:
Are you a student? Writing your first CV? Then make it SMART.
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SMART is an acronym that is widely used in self-help literature and it stands for:
S – Specific
M – Measurable
A – Achievement-oriented
R – Relevant
T – Traceable
Let’s briefly analyse all of them one by one. Continue reading
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I remember how once, when I was teaching students essay writing skills at university, a girl came for an appointment and said she could not start her essay. She did not know how to write the introduction.
I told her not to worry about it – because she could write the introduction at the end. She just looked at me strange and said:
“But the introduction goes at the beginning of the essay, so I should write it before everything else, right?”
Well, the answer is “not really”.
The introduction tells your reader what your paper is going to be about. It sums up the entire research process in one-two paragraphs.
Unless you are really confident about what you research is all about and you know 100% what the outcome of your analysis is going to be, wait with the introduction.
Here are the three main reasons why you should do it: Continue reading
An excellent instructional video on writing a literature review – or the “previous research section”.
Facebook is more than just a distraction. It can be a wonderful social networking tool. It can be professional.
Even more, it has to be professional. If it is not, it can end in a disaster. Check this one out:
This one is also good:
Moron Calls In Sick, Busted On Facebook
Along with all the other networking sites like LinkedIn or Twitter, your Facebook page needs to reflect you, your life, your attitudes etc. in the most positive way Continue reading
Please look here: a great article on securing a job!
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1.a) Know what you want
It all begins with deciding what career you want. This should NOT be based on salary level, as you will soon realise as you begin to work that if you do not like a job you will not be motivated to do well in it. Once you have found something you would like to do, it’s important to research the varying types of professions within that industry or sector. For example, Continue reading
