Graduate School
In year one, thirty PDFs in a folder work fine. By year three, four hundred badly named files and scattered notes can cost you an afternoon to find one quotatio
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
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
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
Research Integrity & Open Science
A “Smith (1998) found” copied from someone else’s paper can carry their mistake for twenty years. How to cite honestly when you cannot get the original, check c
Academic Writing
Reading your draft from start to finish and fixing everything you notice is the slowest way to revise. A five-pass process from structure down to wording, rever
Academic Writing
A good academic paragraph does exactly one job: defend one claim. A four-step structure, given-new information flow for smooth sentences, how to handle countera
Academic Writing
A review that walks through one author after another is a flaw examiners spot on page one. How to use a synthesis matrix to group sources by idea, compare findi
Graduate School
After the same three years of research, one candidate submits an 80,000-word monograph and another submits three papers wrapped in an introduction and synthesis
Graduate School
Theses rarely fall behind because of one disaster. They slip through hundreds of “busy this week” weeks. How to break a thesis into milestones, track it with a
AI in Research & Learning
Using AI to catch typos is a world away from having it draft your argument. A five-level scale shows where you stand, what needs disclosing, and how to keep evi
