Richard HiggsApr 18, 2023What is academic writing?When starting out on an academic writing journey as a postgrad, you are drawing on your years of apprenticeship as an undergraduate...
Richard HiggsApr 13, 2023Review! Systematic?The systematic review as a research design is very appealing. Discovering that it is a research design that does not require you to...
Richard HiggsSep 8, 2022Contorted paraphrases: avoiding Turnitin syndromeToo often while marking assignments and dissertations, we come across sentences that on the surface appear to make sense, but on closer...
Richard HiggsSep 8, 2022Recipe carding: a recipe for good literature reviewsIn the days before word processors, researchers frequently used index cards to catalogue and sort through their ideas and citations....
Richard HiggsSep 3, 2022Citing others' work: Avoiding all those "according to"sAcademic writing frequently requires us to cite the work of other authors, and we can do this with verbatim quotations, paraphrases,...
Richard HiggsJul 21, 2022Avoiding laundry lists with synthesisA common mistake in literature reviews, but often elsewhere in dissertations too, is what our respected colleague Mary Nassimbeni calls...