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Richard Higgs
Apr 18, 2023
What 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...
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Richard Higgs
Apr 13, 2023
Review! Systematic?
The systematic review as a research design is very appealing. Discovering that it is a research design that does not require you to...
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Richard Higgs
Sep 8, 2022
Contorted paraphrases: avoiding Turnitin syndrome
Too often while marking assignments and dissertations, we come across sentences that on the surface appear to make sense, but on closer...
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Richard Higgs
Sep 8, 2022
Recipe carding: a recipe for good literature reviews
In the days before word processors, researchers frequently used index cards to catalogue and sort through their ideas and citations....
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Richard Higgs
Sep 3, 2022
Citing others' work: Avoiding all those "according to"s
Academic writing frequently requires us to cite the work of other authors, and we can do this with verbatim quotations, paraphrases,...
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Richard Higgs
Jul 21, 2022
Avoiding laundry lists with synthesis
A common mistake in literature reviews, but often elsewhere in dissertations too, is what our respected colleague Mary Nassimbeni calls...
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