Dr Mike Rose, Researcher Development Training Officer, Doctoral College Academic writing is a strange beast. It often looks like botched taxidermy, especially in the editing phase. (I was going to include an image here, but they were all a bit upsetting. Image search ‘weird taxidermy’ at your discretion.) The conventions are often rigid but implicit, […]
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Guest post – Professor David Sampson, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Research & Innovation I have always liked to write – but when I started out writing down my science, I was rubbish. One of my first papers, a full-length exposition of the work that won me my first EPSRC grant (SERC back then) and set me on my […]
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Dr Alex Pavey, Researcher Development Training Officer, Doctoral College I’ve experimented with many, many different writing tips and techniques in the past, particularly when I was working on my PhD thesis. I tried making writing the very first thing I did in the morning, and I also tried not sitting down to write until I’d […]
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To be productive in academic writing and sustain that productivity over a long period of time, you need to come up with an effective writing strategy that works for you. Some people prefer to do long swathes of writing with sizeable gaps between them, and some tend to write frequently in short bursts. So, are […]
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Guest post – Dr Kate Gleeson, Doctoral College Director I really enjoy writing. I love everything about it: the physical process, watching the words mount up, the feeling of progressing towards something interesting and useful. However, I hate the moment of starting to write. This has nothing to do with writers block, but everything to do with […]
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Are you a researcher who makes their code or analysis pipelines publicly available? Would you rather conduct a systematic review than a targeted literature search? Do you publish your null and negative results? Do you, in any capacity, attempt to practice open and reproducible science? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, the […]
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