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: What is the process for publishing academic papers? While studying in my first term as EPIR student I had to prepare several papers. I gave those to my family and friends, to read and comment
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: Why are papers printed in a two column format? Is there a reason or is it arbitrary/tradition?
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: What are the tricks to avoid repetition in writing? After some time of working on my research, I usually have a structured information of my results, which I can best describe in bullets/numbers.
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: Should I write an abstract for a formal essay? Should I write an abstract for a formal essay? I've heard from different sources that I should, although my instructor didn't specify. And if
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: Writing a bibliography In the formats I've seen for writing a bibliography, the author is always put first, and then the title. Are there some bibliographies where the title is put before the
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: Can I use "We" to refer to me and the reader? I am writing my thesis and in many cases I want to take the reader through an example. For example: Besides the advanced composition rules,
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: Quoting text from a country with different internationalization I'm writing my doctoral dissertation here in the United States, and quoting some text from an English-language paper written in Germany.
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: Resources for thesis writing Will be writing my master's thesis in a few months. I have never written a thesis yet though. I was unlucky enough not to be required to have a thesis during
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: Correct order for Thesis Front Matter What is the correct order of the following pages comprising a doctoral thesis: Title, Abstract, Colophon, Copyright, Dedication, Preface, Acknowledgements, Table
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: Is it good style to use Latin phrases in English scientific literature? I don't know how much and deep actual school kids in the US get in touch with Latin. In Europe you can choose it in
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: Is it fine to use link shorteners for research paper citations? I'm curious about the "properness" of using shortened links (a la bit.ly or tinyurl) in research papers. I haven't been
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: Multiple MLA inline citation question I'm familiar with the basic rules on inline citation, however, recently I've stumbled onto this problem numerous times so I thought I would ask. When using
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: When should one use a section sign (§)? When I asked this on English.SE, the question was closed; it was suggested that I ask on Writers.SE instead. To be clear, I mean the section sign
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: Where to put a large diagram in a thesis? I was wondering what is the most acceptable way of including a large diagram in my thesis. The diagram takes up a full page and splits a paragraph.
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: What should you do if you need more than five heading when writing an APA paper? (I don't know if this question is appropriate here. I'm going to take a chance.) If you're writing a paper
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: Dropping articles in the title (of a article or a section) or in the caption (of a figure or a table)? What's the general rule? It is said that "To give added punch, articles are often dropped
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: How do you introduce terms? There's a few different styles for technical (academic) papers. Which is the preferred style to introducing new technical terms? For example, here is a paragraph
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: Origin of Passive Voice or Third Person in scientific Writing I was reading a turkish translation of Robert A. Day , How to Write & Publish a Scientific Paper. Foreword is written by A.
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: What is a basic structure for writing an essay on the SAT or for an AP exam? Most prompted essays for the SAT or an advanced placement writing class can be written using a similar basic
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: Is Academic Ghostwriting legal? I recently learned of the concept of academic ghostwriting (see, e.g. this article) - by which I mean the situation where a student goes to another person, or
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: Interesting and easier-to-read alternatives to the scientific academic article Short version: What is an equally informative, but more interesting alternative to typical academic-article-style scientific
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: Write about why XX is an intellectual fit for you It comes to me when a graduate school application form asks me why do you think XX university is an intellectual fit for you How should
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: Write about academic plans A graduate school application form asks me to write about my academic plans. What I can think of is only the course arrangement in graduate study. So am I missing
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: How to improve my skill at writing a question? I'm a member of some SE sites, like SO and CSTheory. In those sites I'm an active member, I'm reading Q&A and also answering some questions
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: Where should index and glossary appear in a report? I am writing my thesis and now wonder whether I should typeset index and glossary as an appendix or after them. There's no department-level
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: Is it acceptable for a tech book to consist of only 2 chapters? I am interested in writing a book on a particular class of natural products. It would discuss the products' isolation and biological
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: What tense to use in an academic paper when speaking about correspondence? What is the correct tense to use in an academic paper when speaking about correspondence? Say one of my source materials
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: What's the appropriate way to write numbers in educational contexts like papers? I want to know if numbers should be written alphabetically in educational contexts, for instance: 10 plasma
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: How to convert DOI to citation information The DOI website will redirect to the article webpage on the journal official website. Is there is a public automated system to translate DOI to citation
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: How to do literature review We often hear that literature review (LR) is not mere summarizing the writings of other, rather it is scrutinizing finding the material relevant to one's own research
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: Self-contained software environment for authoring research papers Does a self-contained environment for authoring research papers exist? Clearly, the concept might be a little unclear, so here's an
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: How Important are essay writing conventions in the university level and above? I go to a CEGEP, which is basically pre-university in Montreal. In my Introduction to English class, I had a teacher
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: What's the difference between academic and journalistic writing? I'm not talking about "boring" academic papers that are 99% science and 0% interesting. But in comments on a draft of my senior
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: How can a practical learner get up to speed on APA quickly? I'd like to learn the APA style guide, so that, in addition to the fiction and general non-fiction I work on currently, I can
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: Adding related work to an academic project report In an academic project report, what phrasing should I use to introduce and explain related work? I have to explain several previous projects;
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: Abbreviation for "figures" in scientific papers In scientific papers, the term "Figure" -- referring to an illustration in the text -- is often abbreviated as "Fig." But is "Figures" abbreviated
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: How do I determine if a paper has been plagiarized? Is there a service which allows you to check if a paper/article was plagiarized? At this moment, I use Google to check if some papers are
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: How to work with in-text markup for figures and captions in Scrivener? I like the writing tool Scrivener because of the organisation tools like the corkboard and the no-frills full screen mode.
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: What sections of the frontmatter are listed in the table of contents? There is a question about the correct order for thesis front matter. If I have those sections and some order, what of
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: Tools for exploring and analysing document structure? I'm currently writing a thesis. Just the introduction is 25 pages/8000 words. The whole document will probably be 70 pages or so. With a
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