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The Fundamentals of Academic Writing (2024)
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Week 1, Part 1: Basic principles and assumptions
Why is writing so hard (4:12)
Research comes first (4:28)
The standard advice (and why it doesn't work) (6:01)
Turn off the internet! (4:43)
Basic care (shorten the writing-editing cycle) (5:21)
Perfectionism (4:08)
Week 1, Part 2: Confidence
Confidence is the foundation (4:46)
How confidence affects writing (3:03)
Decision making (3:36)
Focus on your strengths (4:36)
Week 1, Part 3: The basic process
Separate exploration from presentation (4:54)
From mind-map to bullet points (5:40)
Digging the tunnel (5:32)
Week 2: The principles of structure
Introduction to structure (6:01)
Problems and responses (5:00)
Context- situation (3:15)
Acknowledge the good, too! (4:00)
Exceptions (3:51)
Week 3: Introductions
Don't leave the introduction till last (4:31)
What's the purpose of the introduction? (4:45)
Leading the reader towards the research aims (5:26)
A note on the use of references in the introduction (2:47)
The academic context & establishing a gap in the literature (4:14)
Adding detail (9:04)
Bonus video (3:23)
Additional sections (4:29)
Introducing methods (4:05)
Introducing theory (4:21)
Defining key terms (5:32)
Finishing the introduction (5:55)
Week 4: Literature reviews part 1: Understanding the literature
Taking notes on the literature (4:17)
Introduction (5:07)
Identifying and understanding nfluential papers (7:08)
Trends in the literature (3:41)
Problems with the literature (3:12)
Understanding methods (4:10)
Filtering the literature (4:59)
Week 5: Literature reviews part 2: Writing a literature review
01 introduction (2:50)
02 what should your LR include (4:57)
03 the lit has to be good enough (4:49)
04 deciding what to leave out (3:56)
05 how many papers (2:37)
06 simple narrative structures (6:13)
07 more narrative structures (7:52)
08 example from my thesis (5:28)
09 different ways of citing (3:35)
10 mindmapping the literature (5:55)
Week 6: Methods and methodology
Why the methods are so important (3:26)
responding to needs and challenges (5:05)
details (4:40)
methodology (5:24)
don-t put others down (2:36)
Week 7: Results and Discussion
5 Basic Rules (3:40)
Introduction: Separate Exploration from Presentation (3:48)
Practicing Analysis (4:03)
Presenting Numerical Data (2:28)
Qualitative Data (2:01)
Assessing What you Have (4:36)
Narrative Structure (4:00)
Observations (1:21)
Discussion (2:53)
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