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Grabbing the Academic Reader’s Attention – By Design
Communication
April 24, 2014

Grabbing the Academic Reader’s Attention – By Design

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How to Be the Grad Student Your Adviser Brags About
Career
April 23, 2014

How to Be the Grad Student Your Adviser Brags About

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The Perils of Megajournals–and How to Avoid Them
Open Access
April 14, 2014

The Perils of Megajournals–and How to Avoid Them

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The Lowdown on Five Collaborative Writing Tools for Academics
News
April 8, 2014

The Lowdown on Five Collaborative Writing Tools for Academics

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How to Present Data Effectively: An Example

How to Present Data Effectively: An Example

This how-to by information designer Stephanie Evergreen first appeared at SAGE Connection. *** Why even present data at all? Why bother to […]

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How to Live Tweet at an Academic Event

How to Live Tweet at an Academic Event

This how-to by SAGE PR and Public Affairs Manager Camille Gamboa first appeared at SAGE Connection. *** With a brand new year […]

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9 Basics for Anyone Submitting to a Scholarly Journal

9 Basics for Anyone Submitting to a Scholarly Journal

Leah Fargotstein, a social science journals editor at SAGE, recently sat on a panel where she was asked some basic, yet essential […]

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6 Reasons Why Researchers (of Any Age) Should Get Tweeting

6 Reasons Why Researchers (of Any Age) Should Get Tweeting

This post by SAGE’s Camille Gamboa first appeared at SAGE Connection under the title, “6 Reasons why researchers (of any age) should […]

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What I Say When My Colleagues Ask Me If They Should Be On Twitter

What I Say When My Colleagues Ask Me If They Should Be On Twitter

Quite frequently nowadays, other professors ask me if they should be on Twitter, reports Hope Jahren, a scientist, blogger and not-so-secret agent for social media. “This is kind of sad,” I think to myself, “How did we get to the point where I’m giving computer advice?” I’ve decided to generously make my opinions available.

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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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11 Tips on How to Present Research Findings

11 Tips on How to Present Research Findings

A network I participate in was recently asked the question:Had anyone on the list has gone from academia into policy research of any kind and has given presentations based on academic research to think tanks, government departments, NGOs or similar and had any useful insights?

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