The Importance of Being Disruptive: On Decolonising Creative Research Methods
Caroline Lenette offered a keynote address at the International Creative Research Methods conference, September 2023. See the address and learn about the 2024 conference here.
Image Use and Reuse
Academic writing is not always writing! Pictures and media enliven our writing, and can be important for showing concepts and contexts.
How to Make a Cogent Argument
How and why should you argue in academic writing? Learn more from Dr. Alastair Bonnett, author of How to Argue.
Research Proposals: Writing Strategies and Ethical Considerations
This post includes tips about writing qualitative proposals excerpted from Research Design by Creswell and Creswell.
Peer Reviewing for Journals and the Co-Construction of Knowledge
Peer review is a social process involving the interactions of authors, reviewers and editors, each of whom make a different contribution to the production of knowledge. Learn more in this guest post from Dr. Dermot Breslin.
Academic Writing: From Global Authors to Global Readers
Safary Wa-Mbaleka, Arceli Rosario, and Anna Cohen Miller discussed opportunities and challenges for global researchers and academic writers in this roundtable discussion.
Organize Your Writing Projects
Celebrate Academic Writing Month 2023 by getting organized! Find open-access resources to help you avoid being distracted by details and lost files.
Use AcWriMo to reconnect with your desire to write
Jo VanEvery believes that a writing practice based on the desire to write and enjoyment of the intellectual challenge will produce the outputs you are under pressure to produce. Learn how in this post!
Learning to be Original: In the Age of AI, Students Need to be Taught the Skills of Innovation
AI can do a lot of things but it cannot do originality. Learn more from Dr. Alastair Bonnett, author of How to Be Original.
Qualitative Research: From Design to Publication
Dr. Linda Bloomberg offers four presentations about qualitative research approaches at each stage of the process.
Managing and Writing the Doctoral Thesis or Dissertation
Dr. Linda Bloomberg offers detailed suggestions for getting organized and starting a dissertation or thesis.
If AI wrote your article, what would you lose? Some thoughts on wellbeing and writing
Connect or reconnect to the joy of writing with these tips from Dr. Katherine Firth.
The Link between Critical Reading, Thinking and Writing
How can critical thinking skills help you write more precisely? In this post Dr. Alex Baratta offers some practical tips.
Writing The Ethnography Quartet
Between 2015 and 2022 Paul Atkinson produced four books about ethnography. How and why did that happen, and what did he want to achieve? Learn about this quartet of books.
Equity-Focused Research Dissemination Planning
Applying an equity focused lens specifically to reporting and dissemination necessitates a careful and deliberate approach. Learn more in this post!
Disseminating Research with an Equity-Focused Lens
Learn about disseminating research with an equity lens in this guest post from the CTE Research Network Equity Working Group.
Academic Writing with Pen in Hand
Sometimes taking a break from the keyboard to write by hand unleashes creativity.
Finding gems in limited data: How we went from “ungeneralizable” to valuable findings
How do you find gems in a research project when the data is too thin for generalizations? In this post researchers discuss creative ways to learn from (and write about) the experience.
Academic Writing in Different Disciplines
This post from Dr. Alex Baratta explains different approaches to academic writing and offers practical guidance.