Transcript If you love words, love reading and love writing, but aren’t sure how to take your passion and turn it into a successful career as an editor, I can help. I can tell you exactly what steps you need to take to launch your fabulous career as an editor.…
Transcript Hi, I’m Dr Lisa Lines, from Capstone Editing. If you’re watching this video, chances are you are nearing the end of writing up your thesis, and you’re beginning to look at your options for professional academic editing. Having your thesis professionally edited is an extremely important part of finalising your thesis,…
Transcript Hi, it’s Lisa here from Capstone Editing. As a postgraduate student, you are likely juggling multiple essay writing deadlines for your course work and perhaps work and family commitments as well. Working under such pressure, you may find yourself submitting your essays without taking enough time to properly edit…
Abbreviation: Abbreviations consist of the first letter(s) of a word, but not the final letter. A full stop must be used (e.g. Prof. or Vic.). Abstract: An abstract is a brief summary of your journal article, research paper or thesis. It outlines your main content areas, research purpose, the outcomes of the study…
Can a mentor turbo-drive your academic career? We expect so much from our mentors, but formal workplace mentoring schemes can be disappointing. Much like a good marriage, there does need to be a certain chemistry between mentors and protégés (or mentees) for it to last beyond the first date. What…
For me it is often the endless housework that surrounds me, as I frequently work from home. It always seems far more important to tend to the washing, clean the skirting boards or weed the vegetable patch than to sit down at my desk and write. In particular, some tasks…
Writing and publishing journal articles is essential if you wish to pursue an academic career. Today, academic careers are publication-dependent; developing a high-quality publication record is a vital part of developing your academic credentials, your visibility among your discipline peers and your viability as a researcher. This article will pinpoint the features…
This guide provides postgraduate students with an overview of the literature review required for most research degrees. It will advise you on the common types of literature reviews across disciplines and will outline how the purpose and structure of each may differ slightly. Various approaches to effective content organisation and…
This guide provides undergraduate students with an introduction to writing a literature review. It will explain several things: what a literature review is, what it includes and how you should approach researching and writing it. As you have probably not had to write one before, you may be asking yourself:…
Learn how to acknowledge your sources of information It is important that you acknowledge your sources of information in your academic writing. This allows you to clearly show how the ideas of others have influenced your own work. You should provide a citation (and matching reference) in your essay every…