Tag: Academic Writing

What’s the Best Day to Submit an Academic Article?

By James Hartley | Published: April 12, 2019

Large data sets can now be quickly analyzed to assess whether or not certain features, previously deemed unimportant, can actually affect the chances of a research paper being accepted for publication. In this post, James Hartley looks at new research on weekly submission dates.

Six Things We’ve Learned About Academic Writing Productivity (and Satisfaction)

By Chris Smith | Published: October 24, 2018

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.

Posted in Announcements, Research, Tips | Also tagged Surveys, Tips | Leave a comment

How to Tell a Story in Your Research Paper

By Anna Clemens | Published: June 1, 2018

People love stories. We watch, read, tell, and listen to stories every day. Despite this, most researchers don’t think in terms of story when they write a journal paper. To Anna Clemens, that’s a missed opportunity, that she helps solve so that we may be ready to write a paper that is concise, compelling, and easy to understand.

Posted in Interdisciplinarity | Also tagged How-To | Leave a comment

Patricia Goodson on the POWER of Better Academic Writing

By Michael Todd | Published: February 22, 2018

A combination of influences -- practice, classroom and POWER -- has made Patricia Goodson's book 'Becoming an Academic Writer: 50 Exercises for Paced, Productive, and Powerful Writing' a winner for many academics around the world, and now the Textbook & Academic Authors Association has awarded Goodson’s book with one of its 2018 Textbook Excellence Awards. We talk to the author about writing, both her own and perhaps yours!

Posted in Communication, Recognition | Also tagged Patricia Goodson, POWER Writing, TAA | Leave a comment

Open Writing is the Necessary Precursor to Open Science

By Ninna Meier and Charlotte Wegener | Published: November 18, 2016

The new Open Writing project aims to open academic writing practice to reflections and experiments with the actual process of writing, with a view to creating new, open research products that have an impact on peers, public and policymakers.

Posted in Communication | Also tagged LSE Impact | Leave a comment

Two Decades After Sokal, Is Academic Writing Any Better?

By Siobhan Austen and Darren O'Connell | Published: July 27, 2016

Many academics still operate under the flawed logic that good writing must be complex writing (or vice versa).

Posted in Interdisciplinarity, International Debate | Also tagged Publication Concerns | 1 Response

Referencing References to Reduce Publication Errors

By James Hartley | Published: May 27, 2014

Every now and again a paper is published on the number of errors made in academic articles. These papers document the frequency of conceptual errors, factual errors, errors in abstracts, errors in quotations, and errors in reference lists. James Hartley reports that the data are alarming, but suggests a possible way of reducing them. Perhaps in future there might be a single computer program that matches references in the text with correct (pre-stored) references as one writes the text.

Posted in Communication | Also tagged Citations, Errors | Leave a comment

Concrete Advice for Writing Informative Abstracts

By Patrick Dunleavy | Published: May 5, 2014

Be substantive and communicate your key findings - simple counsel from Patrick Dunleavy. But how exactly do you that? Here's how.

Posted in Communication, Tips | Also tagged Abstracts | Leave a comment

Grabbing the Academic Reader’s Attention – By Design

By Patrick Dunleavy | Published: April 24, 2014

Patrick Dunleavy offers four principles for improving how you display tables, graphs, charts and diagrams to give the beleaguered reader help in deciphering your message.

Posted in Communication, Tips | Also tagged Design | Leave a comment

How to Carefully Choose Useless Titles for Academic Writing

By Patrick Dunleavy | Published: March 4, 2014

An informative title for an article or chapter maximizes the likelihood that your audience correctly remembers enough about your arguments to re-discover what they are looking for. Without embedded cues, your work will sit undisturbed on other scholars’ PDF libraries, or languish unread among hundreds of millions of other documents on the Web. That must be what what we want, based on on what we do.

Posted in Career, Communication, Impact, Tips | Also tagged Patrick Dunleavy | 2 Responses

OA and the UK Humanities & Social Sciences

By Cameron Neylon | Published: January 4, 2013

The opportunity for H&SS to reach much wider audiences who appreciate the value of their work generally, and to reach those specific people who will make important use of it is enormous.

Posted in Featured, Impact, News, Open Access, Public Engagement, Public Policy | Also tagged Academic Books, Finch Report, Gold Route, Journals, OA, Open Access, Publishing, Research, Social Science | Leave a comment

Tag: Academic Writing

What’s the Best Day to Submit an Academic Article?

Six Things We’ve Learned About Academic Writing Productivity (and Satisfaction)

How to Tell a Story in Your Research Paper

Patricia Goodson on the POWER of Better Academic Writing

Open Writing is the Necessary Precursor to Open Science

Two Decades After Sokal, Is Academic Writing Any Better?

Referencing References to Reduce Publication Errors

Concrete Advice for Writing Informative Abstracts

Grabbing the Academic Reader’s Attention – By Design

How to Carefully Choose Useless Titles for Academic Writing

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