Author: Patrick Dunleavy

Patrick Dunleavy is emeritus professor of political science and public policy at the London School of Economics, and the editor in chief at LSE Press. With Helen Porter and CIVICA colleagues, he leads a workgroup that is compiling an open science handbook for both the quantitative and qualitative social sciences. He blogs at 'Writing for Research" and tweets @Write4Research.

Has Digital Open Access Made Book Chapters Comparable to Academic Journals?
Communication
March 14, 2023

Has Digital Open Access Made Book Chapters Comparable to Academic Journals?

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How Three False Starts Stifle Open Social Science
News
June 30, 2022

How Three False Starts Stifle Open Social Science

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I Have a Journal Article. How Do I Write a Blog Post About it?
Career
January 27, 2016

I Have a Journal Article. How Do I Write a Blog Post About it?

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Top 10 Ways Businesses and Academics Interact
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September 10, 2015

Top 10 Ways Businesses and Academics Interact

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Are You an Academic Hermit?

Are You an Academic Hermit?

Lack a personal website? No CV posted online? Is your work visible on digital listings? If you are answering no, Patrick Dunleavy offers some advice how to easily shed that monkish role — if you want to.

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Concrete Advice for Writing Informative Abstracts

Concrete Advice for Writing Informative Abstracts

Be substantive and communicate your key findings – simple counsel from Patrick Dunleavy. But how exactly do you that? Here’s how.

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Grabbing the Academic Reader’s Attention – By Design

Grabbing the Academic Reader’s Attention – By Design

Patrick Dunleavy offers four principles for improving how you display tables, graphs, charts and diagrams to give the beleaguered reader help in deciphering your message.

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How to Carefully Choose Useless Titles for Academic Writing

How to Carefully Choose Useless Titles for Academic Writing

An informative title for an article or chapter maximizes the likelihood that your audience correctly remembers enough about your arguments to re-discover what they are looking for. Without embedded cues, your work will sit undisturbed on other scholars’ PDF libraries, or languish unread among hundreds of millions of other documents on the Web. That must be what what we want, based on on what we do.

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