What are your writing goals? And, more importantly, what are you doing to reach them? According to Mark Twain, “The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.”
Most useful textbook and academic posts of the week: October 11, 2019
This week’s collection of articles from around the web includes such topics as the user-centric future of academic research software, crowd-funding research projects, writing the thesis from the middle, evaluative focus groups, citations of friends and reviewers, and roadblocks to better open access models.
We close the collection with a book review of two new guides to academic life and and a new approach to keeping up with academic publications – knowledge mapping.
Robert Louis Stevenson once said, “I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.” As you work this week, may you continue to grow through what you read in a way that lets you produce more from what you write. Happy writing!
Most useful textbook and academic posts of the week: July 5, 2019
This week’s collection of articles from around the web is filled with resources and advice that you will want to save for present and future writing projects. It opens with some new books on writing that you might want to add to your personal library and then continues with specific advice on mistakes to avoid, data visualizations, how many references are appropriate, and graphical or video abstracts for your articles. Finally, there are some articles on other important topics including research funding, Plan S, and the need for outside jobs in grad school.
As you move forward on your writing projects this week, we wish you great success. Happy writing!
Applying the theory of experiential learning to textbook writing
Experiential learning, a four-stage cycle that accommodates four distinct types of learners, is the ideal way for people to learn.…