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Category Archives: academia

Making our research dialogue with the broader scholarly literature in our academic writing July 22, 2025
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A guiding framework to help learners write more analytically by focusing on the Description, Analysis and Interpretation stages of the research process (GReDAI) July 20, 2025
Posted in academia, research, research design, research methods.
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Gap-spotting, problematization, finding a niche: How can researchers develop their contribution to the literature? June 28, 2025
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Doing a project per career stage versus executing multiple projects: Pros, cons and my own experience June 1, 2025
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On the importance of a To-Do List, and 5 strategies to get TDL items completed April 17, 2025
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Paying yourself first by time-blocking your writing, thinking and researching time April 13, 2025
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Developing a READING practice: 4 reasons and 5 tips April 13, 2025
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6 tips to re-start your writing practice April 2, 2025
Posted in academia, writing.
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Learning how to deal with rejection in academia… January 2, 2025
Posted in academia, writing.
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Developing a sustainable writing practice January 1, 2025
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Of zombie papers and manuscripts… December 30, 2024
Posted in academia, writing.
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A new year, a new era, and a new beginning for my blog December 29, 2024
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Connecting your specific research to broader questions in the literature, the field and the discipline November 15, 2024
Posted in academia, research, research design, research methods.
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The value and importance of the pre-writing stage of writing July 16, 2024
Posted in academia, writing.
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“State-Sponsored Activism: Bureaucrats and Social Movements in Brazil” – Jessica Rich – my reading notes February 27, 2024
Posted in academia, reading notes, research, research design, social movements.
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Reading Like a Writer – Francine Prose – my reading notes February 26, 2024
Posted in academia, writing.
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Using the Pacheco-Vega workflows and frameworks to write and/or revise a scholarly book July 16, 2023
Posted in academia, writing.
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On framing, the value of narrative and storytelling in scholarly research, and the importance of asking the “what is this a story of” question April 3, 2023
Posted in academia, research, research methods, writing.
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The Abstract Decomposition Matrix Technique to find a gap in the literature March 30, 2023
Posted in academia, research, writing.
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16 tips on the process of academic writing and publishing from the #ISA2023 Environmental Studies Section Speed Mentoring Session March 19, 2023
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Producing journal article manuscripts from a doctoral dissertation March 13, 2023
Posted in academia, research.
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5 habit-forming, practice-developing strategies that you can work with during the upcoming month February 19, 2023
Posted in academia, productivity.
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On calendars, synchronization and collaborative work in academia: Aligning Priorities and Availabilities across multiple people September 25, 2022
Posted in academia, planning, productivity.
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On writing by hand and always keeping a written record of everything September 25, 2022
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Qualitative Literacy: A Guide to Evaluating Ethnographic and Interview Research (my reading notes) September 22, 2022
Posted in academia, qualitative methods, reading notes, research, research methods.
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