In your academic writing, and most frequently in your Methodology chapter, you are required to provide motivations: why you chose a...

When starting out on an academic writing journey as a postgrad, you are drawing on your years of apprenticeship as an undergraduate...

The systematic review as a research design is very appealing. Discovering that it is a research design that does not require you to...

Too often while marking assignments and dissertations, we come across sentences that on the surface appear to make sense, but on closer...

In the days before word processors, researchers frequently used index cards to catalogue and sort through their ideas and citations....

Academic writing frequently requires us to cite the work of other authors, and we can do this with verbatim quotations, paraphrases,...

A common mistake in literature reviews, but often elsewhere in dissertations too, is what our respected colleague Mary Nassimbeni calls...