Your 10-point checklist before sending off that manuscript « Getting Things Done in Academia
Preparing a manuscript is a complex task. Your career ultimately depends on producing successful manuscripts. The last thing you want to do is send out a manuscript prematurely. It wastes your time, your editor’s time, and the time of your anonymous [...]
SSRN-Publishing Advice for Graduate Students by Thom Brooks
Graduate students often lack concrete advice on publishing. This essay is an attempt to fill this important gap. Advice is given on how to publish everything from book reviews to articles, replies to book chapters, and how to secure both edited book contracts and authored monograph contracts, [...]
Academic Productivity » How to complete your PhD (or any large project): Hard and soft deadlines, and the Martini Method
Having recently completed a PhD, Shane shares three indispensable nuggets of advice for how to get the monster vanquished: use hard deadlines, soft deadlines, and the Martini Method. With a small amount of imagination these [...]
ORE Ohio Reference Excellence on the Web, web based training for Reference Service from Ohio Library Council
OLC provides Ohio Reference Excellence on the Web to increase access to ORE training and improve the quality of reference service in Ohio! Six self-paced modules cover the reference process, with resource links, exercises, [...]
Study Skills – How to Study
Mangrum-Strichart Learning Resources is pleased to welcome you to our free resource site, the #1 study skills site in the world. We encourage you to make full use of the study skills, study strategies, and study tips we have written [...]
Study Hacks » Blog Archive » Monday Master Class: How to Edit Your Paper in Three Passes or Less
Paper editing is a tricky task. It has to be done well. Nothing scuttles a paper faster than obvious mistakes or sloppy construction. You must, however, be careful. Too many editing passes can bloat the paper-writing [...]
How to Write a Fascinating Thesis Statement | studenthacks.org
No professors or teaching assistants want to read a boring paper. They want to read a paper that engages them; a paper that is compelling and clearly articulated.
So how do you write one of these papers?
Well, the most important part of writing a fascinating paper is [...]
Study Hacks » Blog Archive » Monday Master Class: How to Read Hard Readings
With a complicated reading, even if you go real slow, the real meaning may still elude you. The individual words all make sense, but when strung together by a professional philosopher or comparative literature scholar, they somehow evade easy association with [...]
10 Universities Offering Free Science Courses Online — Education-Portal.com
Some of the world’s most prestigious universities now offer free science courses online. Read on to find out where you can find these courses and to learn what you can get out [...]
