Communicating Research
Below you will find a collection of links to resources on academic communication, from writing the traditional journal article to getting the word out through social media. Enjoy!.
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Titles
- Why do academics and PhDers carefully choose useless titles for articles and chapters? – from Writing for Research
- We need to talk about titles – from the Research Whisperer
Abstracts
- Your essential “how to “ guide for writing good abstracts – from The Impact Blog at LSE
- Simple guidelines for writing an abstract – from Oxford Editing
Paragraphs/General
- How to write paragraphs – from Writing for Research
- The ‘build, blur, corrode’ (BBC) test can help you edit new writing – from Writing for Research
- Seven questions to ask about how your chapter ends – from Writing for Research
- 30 tips for successful academic research and writing – from LSE Impact of Social Sciences blog
- Seven upgrade strategies for a problematic article or chapter – from Writing for Research
- Structuring research articles – from pat thomson
- Rules of thumb for writing research articles – from Hengl and Gould
- What is paragraph re-planning – from Writing for Research
Literature Reviews
- Doing quicker literature reviews – from medum.com
- Writing literature reviews – from Monash University
- Literature reviews – from University of Melbourne
- Writing a literature review – from phd life
- The literature review – a few tips on conducting it – from University of Toronto
- Your first literature review – from Virginia Commonwealth University
Data/ Results
- Writing up qualitative research – from Tony Lynch
- Data visualizations and research – from Times Higher Education
- Six principles of communicating data: a checklist – from DataRemixed
- the audit trail – a common omission from methods chapters – from pat thomson
- How to report data in a way readers need to know – from Writing for Research
- The right colors make data easier to read – from Harvard Business Review
- The pathway to publishing: a guide to quantitative writing in the health sciences – from Stanford
- Guidelines on writing a first quantitative article -from Theuns Kotzé
- Write-up – from Trochim’s Research Methods Knowledge Base
Conclusions
- conclusion mise-en-place – from pat thomson
- concluding the journal article – from pat thomson
- A short note about article conclusions – from PhD to Published
Choosing a Journal
- seven reasons why journals reject papers – from pat thomson
- Selecting a journal for your article – from Oxford Editing
- How to target a journal that’s right for your research – from Ravi Murugesanat at SciDevNet
- The rest of the iceberg: publishing in academic journals for early career researchers – from ECR Publishing
- How to get published in an academic journal:top tips from editors – from the guardian
- Where should I send this darned manuscript anyway? – from Stephanie Swift at SciLogs
- Open access journal options flowchart – from Australian Open Access Support Group
- Smith, R. A. (2013). Tell a Good Story Well: Writing Tips. New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 136, 73-83.
- The really obvious (but all-too-often-ignored) guide to getting published – from Kirsten Bell via The Chronicle
- Christopher, A. N. (2013). Navigating the Minefields of Publishing. New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 136, 85-99.
Presenting at Conferences
- Designing effective presentations – from Anitra Nottingham
- Creating visual maps, diagrams and models – from Thesislink
- Your essential “how-to” guide to using Prezi in an academic environment – from LSE Impact of Social Sciences blog
- Public speaking for academics – from The Guardian
Reviews and Revisions
- The blind spot – from Beyond the Margins
- Why does feedback hurt sometimes – from The Thesis Whisperer
- Fair comment in academia– from Writing for Research
Social Media
- Twitter as a tool for science communication – from Durham University
- Advice for potential academic bloggers – from LSE Impact of Social Sciences blog
- Dissemination of scholarly articles in social media – from figshare
- social media – with/against academic writing – from pat thomson
- Using Twitter to boost your research profile – from phd life
- How to curate your digital identity as an academic – from the Chronicle
- Twitter for researchers – from the University of York
- Are you an academic hermit – from Writing for Research
More…..
Other Links
Many of these also have Twitter/Facebook presences to follow
- The Thesis Whisperer
- Academic Phrasebank – from the University of Manchester
- Pat Thomson’s patter blog
- Writing for Research – from Patrick Dunleavy
- Thinking, Writing, Doing, in the Humanities and Social Sciences, an edited collection from the LSE Impact of Social Sciences Blog
- Explorations of Style: A Blog about about Academic Writing – from Rachael Cayley at UofT
- Writing Tips Series – from the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
- Theme issue on research and writing – from the Journal of Computing in Higher Education
- PhDtoPublished
- Advice for authoring a PhD or academic book – from @Write4Research
- Useful Resources – from the Research Companion
Thanks for a useful information and helpful links. I think it’s very handy for students.