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 and Conventions of Academic Writing" The details in this hand-out are based on material first developed by Hazel Hall at Queen Margaret University College in November 1998....
Six Features of Academic Writing" One of the problems students run into is that they are often expected by their professors to produce a reasonably persuasive argument,...
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...
Qualitative Master’s Thesis" This section provides guidelines for conducting the research and writing a qualitative or creative master’s thesis including a...
Thesis: Components, Functions and Characteristics" Components of a Thesis Theses come in various sizes and shapes. The components of many theses are similar although their functions and...
Thesis = Road Map + So What?" A thesis statement is as straightforward as an addition problem: Roadmap + “So What?” = Thesis But what does this equation mean?...