Cutting NSF Is Like Liquidating Your Finest Investment
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]
Six Things We’ve Learned About Academic Writing Productivity (and Satisfaction)
Writing satisfaction is strongly linked to publishing productivity and, potentially, career success. Chris Smith reports on research investigating the tools and systems academics from all career stages use to keep writing and publishing. Age, experience, and having a sense of certainty about what sort of writing system suits you and your life are all important to productivity and overall satisfaction.
Archived Webinar: How Students Can Tell Better Stories
One of the most frustrating things media instructors face is the lack of quality writing that their students produce. While instructors aren’t […]
What Can I Do With a Sociology Degree?
“Our goal is to pique students’ curiosity about the social world—and then to give them the academic tools to understand that world, […]
How a Degree in Humanities Can Help in a Disruptive Economy
A report from RBC Royal Bank reaffirms what thought leaders keep insisting — there will be more and more demand for a liberal arts education in our increasingly digital world. “I prefer to call them “essential skills,” because we all need them every day, though we don’t always use them well. They are the foundational skills that allow us to learn and live and work productively with other people.”
How Should I Approach Reviewing an Article?
Most early career researchers receive little to no training on how to peer review, and it’s not always easy to find consistent or helpful guidance. Here, during Peer Review Week, Katrina Newitt offers some helpful advice on how to get started.
How Do I Get Published? Five Tips to Successfully Publish an Academic Paper
Standards are high and getting an academic article published is not easy, but there are certain things you can do to improve your success rate. A member of the SAGE Journals Author Relations team — SAGE is the parent of Social Science Space — offers five tips on the smartest way to navigate these challenges.
Why and How to Conduct a Literature Review
“Why you or other researchers need a literature review is rarely discussed, or when it is, it is quickly glossed over. With […]
Transforming Research into an Illustrated Abstract
Publishing research that can be accessed as widely as possible is clearly crucial, but ensuring that research is accessible to similarly large groups of people is an altogether different challenge. Lucy Lambe explains how the LSE Library has worked with a comics creator and illustrator to create illustrated abstracts of articles that were funded to publish open access last year.
