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 TopicSelecting 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" We believe in the free flow of information. We use a Creative Commons Attribution NoDerivatives licence, so you can republish our...
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...