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...
What Editors Want: Paving the Way to Publication." Do… …examine the scope of the journal and description of its contents before submitting. You might be amazed at the number of...
How Do I Cite Correctly and Avoid Plagiarism?" Every single instance when you use extensive phrases and substantive ideas that are not your own, you must acknowledge the source from...
Plagiarism in Academic Writing" Students are often unsure of exactly what plagiarism is and how it affects them. Cutting and pasting from electronic resources has in...
Criteria of a Good Literature Review" The literature review has been reported as the second most deficient chapter in theses by examiners [1] Areas in the literature review...
Drafting Papers: Figures and Tables" Figures and tables are generally used in the Results section, but they can also be useful for summarizing information elsewhere in a...
Drafting Papers: A Strategy for Dealing with Major Limitations" As it is well known, in addition to novel aspects, every study has limitations, since it is impossible to collect fully representative...
Drafting Papers: The Study Anomalies" Anomalies comprise a class of novelties (and/or limitations, depending on the context) that need to be especially carefully addressed....
Where Good Ideas Come From 1/2" Sometime in the late 1870s, a Parisian obstetrician named Ste- phane Tarnier took a day off from his work at Maternite de Paris, the...
Drafting Papers: The Introduction 3" If a paper has an interesting Title, and an informative Abstract indicating that the paper provides novel information of interest to...