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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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Connecting your specific research to broader questions in the literature, the field and the discipline November 15, 2024
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My experience teaching residential academic writing workshops June 28, 2024
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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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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
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Producing journal article manuscripts from a doctoral dissertation March 13, 2023
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Qualitative Literacy: A Guide to Evaluating Ethnographic and Interview Research (my reading notes) September 22, 2022
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The logic of research inquiry and the use of the puzzle approach in research design August 27, 2022
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4 lessons I learned (the hard way) about health, overwork, and life as an academic August 25, 2022
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Preparing for the PhD defense/viva? Use the GDN instead of a DTP August 21, 2022
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The missing link in the literature review process: 4 elements to look for when reviewing the literature July 22, 2022
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On writing about, thinking and teaching research methods. April 23, 2022
Posted in academia, fieldwork, research, research methods, teaching, writing.
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We lack serious training in research methods choice and selection November 15, 2021
Posted in academia, research, research methods, teaching.
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A proposed heuristic to choose which note-taking technique we should use: Index Cards, Cornell Notes, Everything Notebook and Conceptual Synthesis Excel Dump (CSED) rows/Synthetic Notes July 16, 2021
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Delving into an entirely new topic and doing a literature review, performed with an example (on hospital ethnography) March 22, 2021
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Skimming articles using the AIC (Abstract, Introduction, Conclusion) Method, plus an AIC-> Synthetic Note Template for undergraduates (and graduates!) January 28, 2021
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Using ethnographic field notes in the actual writing of a paper January 19, 2021
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Linking theory with research, choosing a theoretical framework and developing alternative explanations December 22, 2020
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Project management for academics III: Juggling multiple writing/research projects September 13, 2020
Posted in academia, organization, planning, productivity, research.
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Writing a Response-To-Reviewers-And-Editors letter August 7, 2020
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An expansive framework to go from idea to abstract to introduction to table of contents to full paper/dissertation/thesis/book August 7, 2020
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Writing by memorandums April 29, 2020
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Toilet paper hoarding, reverse quarantining and individual responses to governmental inaction April 18, 2020
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