Academic Writing
An Introduction does not need to recount the history of your field. It needs to take readers from what is known to your exact question in four or five paragraph
Graduate School
The first year of a PhD is the freest and the easiest to lose. No weekly assignments, no exams, just a fuzzy topic and a mountain of reading. What to do in year
Graduate School
Proposals rarely fail because the idea is bad. They fail because the question is too broad, the method does not match it, or the plan is not feasible. The struc
Research Methods
Many proposals pick “quantitative” first and write the question afterwards. Reverse it: read the verb in your research question and let it decide the design, th
