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Answering Research Presentation Questions Effectively Dealing with questions from audience members can be one of the most difficult aspects ofpresenting your research. In addition to the pressure of speaking in front of a crowd of your academic peers, presentation questions can often be difficult to answer for a number of reasons: communication difficulties, lack of […]

Most spellcheck and grammar check programs are useful, but they are far from perfect. An author might have spelled a word correctly but used it incorrectly, or we might have used the wrong homonym. These are issues that free grammar and spelling tools are not likely to correct. Raise your hand if you’ve been guilty […]

As we continue our series on reducing wordiness and improving your writing, we will shift our focus to the dreadful prepositions that plague everyone! For many of you reading our posts, English is a second language, and we can imagine how much you despise memorizing prepositional phrases. Well, we’ve got a bit of good news […]

What is the difference between a CV and a Resume? While both CVs and resumes contain a history of your major activities, a resume is more heavily focused on professional achievements and work history. A CV or “curriculum vitae,” on the other hand, accentuates your academic accomplishments and is a synopsis of your educational and […]

Writing a great college admissions essay is the result of a long, multi-step process. You must organize your goals, keep track of your progress,research sample essays, andavoid writing mistakes. And you need to do it all by your deadline. Most students can do the research and the writing on their own. Unfortunately, many students do […]

It seems like only yesterday that you were applying to college. But now here you are, preparing your application materials for graduate school. You’ve been through school admissions processes once before, and applying to a grad school program is not so different. You still have forms to fill out, standardized tests to take, recommendation letters […]

Dr. Marc Chiaccio, PhD in Climate Science from the Swiss Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich Switzerland, has worked in various institutes around the world, including NASA, the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), and the University of Sweden. He has more than a decade of experience writing scientific articles for international journals as well […]

To round out this week’s discussion on how to find the right journal, we’re going to explore the different types of processes journals use to evaluate manuscripts. When you make your list of target journals, you need to consider not only the journal’saim and scopebut also the kind of review it conducts. There are two […]

If you’ve been wondering about which verb tense to use in your research papers, below is a quick cheat sheet highlighting the main verb tenses to use in each section of a scientific paper. We provide further explanation in a separatearticle detailingwhich tense to use in abstracts. For additional information about how to write a […]

Scientists and academics publish research to share new findings and increase the public and research community’s understanding ofa variety of important subject matters. As discussed in a priorpost, when editors select an article to publish, one of the key factors they consider is your methodology. A research paper contains not only the resultsbut also how […]

After the title page and abstract, the reader’s first true interaction with your research paper is the Introduction. Your Introduction will establish the foundation upon which your readers approach your work, and if you use the tips we discuss in this video and article, these readers should be able to logically apply the rules set […]

In the digital age, competing for readers’ attention has become increasingly difficult. Worse yet, because everyone is so overwhelmed by all the information available, most people often scan materials and rarely read the text thoroughly. How, then, can you convince people that your academic paper is worth exploring? The short answer: a strong and engaging […]