AI in Research & Learning
Delegating what you have mastered saves time; delegating what you are still learning removes the chance to learn it. Which skills to practise yourself, signs of
Academic Writing
Reflective essays after a placement or clinical rotation often score poorly because they just retell events. Learn to move from description to analysis, link to
Academic Writing
More funders and journals now ask for a summary in everyday language. It is harder than a scientific abstract, because you drop the jargon but keep the precisio
Academic Writing
Five co-authors, seven files called “final”, and conflicting comments scattered across email. This workflow for writing a paper together covers roles, a single
Academic Writing
Book reviews are among the easiest pieces for early-career researchers to publish, yet many turn into chapter-by-chapter summaries. Here is how to get commissio
Academic Writing
A paragraph can be grammatical sentence by sentence and still hard to read, because every sentence opens with something brand new. Four sentence-level technique
Academic Writing
Typing a reference list by hand takes days and still goes wrong. Set up a Zotero workflow for a whole thesis: collect sources, clean metadata, cite in Word or O
Academic Writing
Many readers go from title to abstract and then straight to the tables and figures. Learn to build a clean three-line table, order rows and columns, label units
Academic Writing
Limitations sections often become a generic apology: “small sample”, “limited time”. Learn to pick the weaknesses that matter, say which way they could bias you
Academic Writing
Plenty of well-written essays earn mediocre marks because they answer a different question. Learn to break a prompt into command word, topic and scope, then bui
Academic Writing
Results sections often read the numbers in a table aloud, or slip in explanations that belong in the Discussion. Here is how to order findings, choose between t
Publishing & Peer Review
A thesis is written to prove you did enough; an article is written so others can use your result. How to pick one question, cut the literature review to a fifth
