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Preparing your reference section: a terrible guide

As an academic or researcher you are the top of a pyramid of human knowledge stretching back thousands of years. Your knowledge is the result of a litany of people before you building one small piece of the very large puzzle that you are now solving. Now, whether you are Read more…

By Matthew (@MCeeP), 4 years20 February 2019 ago
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How to reply to reviewers: a terrible guide that no one should follow…

Despite my prolific blog output, I managed to find time earlier this year to write a paper. It was a labour of love, passion and frustration at Word’s image handling system. As a new academic and as a proto-academic, I have been given lots of training on how to write papers. They Read more…

By Matthew (@MCeeP), 7 years19 October 2016 ago
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How to write papers: part 2 – the content

So if you’ve followed all the directions from last month, you’ll now be in an excellent position to start actually sitting down and writing. You should be a couple of weeks ahead of your deadline, with plenty of time to spare. So you can start writing. Well, maybe… I mean Read more…

By Matthew (@MCeeP), 8 years16 September 2015 ago
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How to write papers: part 1 – productive procrastination

So you’ve just done some amazing research that is going to change the landscape of your particular field. What you need to do now is publish a paper and share this with the world. You could share it other ways e.g. sky writing or on the side of a blimp; Read more…

By Matthew (@MCeeP), 8 years5 August 2015 ago
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No PDF for you

About 3 months ago, I had a paper published – there was much rejoicing. Since then I have been planning on doing a big ‘hey, look at my paper’ blog post. I even went so far as to write some other posts that would lay the ground work and background so it Read more…

By Matthew (@MCeeP), 9 years25 June 2014 ago
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