Motivation and Procrastination: The War of Art: If you are procrastinator then this is the book for you. By the American author Steven Pressfield, 'The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win …
Critical Reading Form
You can't be a critical reader by reading only one research paper; and you can't be a critical writer by only writing about one piece of research. The strongest way to review a paper is to put it into …
How To Reference
A referencing system refers to the typographic system used to embed references into texts external to the one being read. Any one journal consistently uses the same referencing system and often a …
The Ten Uses of a Comma
Ever wondered how to use a comma? No. Then you probably should, I t can help your writing and editing. Here the uses of commas in academic English are covered. The first five are the most important in …
The Three Main Uses of Colons
Many people seem unsure how to use colons, however, the principles underlying their use are quite simple. Below is an explanation of the 'rules' of their use in Standard English. In addition to …
Things To Try
Paragraphs: A Manual for the Idea Machine This is a short piece I wrote for ClimateSnack on how to write better paragraphs, and then use them as the key to editing and developing a good …
Web Resources
The Pomodoro Technique. One of the hardest things to do is to get writing and keep writing. Try out the pomodoro technique. It’s so simple: just write in 25minute bites, with five minute breaks. You …
What Is Referencing?
Like the toilet, the footnote enables one to deal with ugly tasks in private; like the toilet, it is tucked genteelly away – often, in recent years, not even at the bottom of the page but at the end …
What To Reference
Anything can be referenced, particularly any written text, but also artefacts such as paintings and sculptures or other collections of objects. However, not everything can be referenced for the same …
Why We Reference
We will discuss the different systems in more detail in How To Reference but before we can consider how to reference I would like us to think about why we reference. It is a question I regularly ask …