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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?...
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