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Is My Research Problem, Too Broad, Too Narrow, or OK?
" If your thesis is going to be solely based on published literature you can quickly establish whether your research question appears to...
How to Select a Research Topic
Selecting a Topic The ability to develop a good research topic is an important skill. An supervisor may assign you a specific topic, but...
Ph.D Thesis Research: Where do I Start?
" If you are the next Paul Samuelson and will wholly transform the field of economics, pay no heed. If you are the next Ken Arrow and...
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 look at, you’d still...
Rules for Formal Academic Writing
" Rules for formal writing are quite strict, though often unstated. Formal writing is used in academic and scientific settings whenever...
Word-Level Issues in Academic Writing
" Try hard to avoid ambiguous references Conversation is replete with ambiguous words like "this", "these", "his", "it", "they", etc....
Discussing Existing/Proposed/Future Work
" Discussing existing work Whenever you bring up an existing piece of research, whether it is your own or someone else's, there is a...
Guidelines Specific to Academic Writing
" Formatting and grammar rules When in doubt about grammar or page format, researchers in psychology and computer science generally...
Academics Admit Feeling Pressure to Embellish Possible Impact of Research
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Communication In Science
" Casimir, Hendrik B.G. There exists today a universal language that is spoken and understood almost everywhere: it is Broken English. I...
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