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 […]
Referencing References to Reduce Publication Errors
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.
Concrete Advice for Writing Informative Abstracts
Be substantive and communicate your key findings – simple counsel from Patrick Dunleavy. But how exactly do you that? Here’s how.
Grabbing the Academic Reader’s Attention – By Design
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.
How to Carefully Choose Useless Titles for Academic Writing
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.
OA and the UK Humanities & Social Sciences
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.
Tips for Academic Writing Success
If you’re writing or planning to write a journal article or book chapter, take some advice from Deborah Lupton of the University of […]
Tips on Writing a Review Paper
If you’re writing a review paper, be sure to check out the Journal of Management Editor’s Choice collection on this topic: The […]
Writing Your Journal Article in 12 Weeks
Interested in writing an article for a journal but struggling with it? SAGE published Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks: A […]
