Category: Academic writing

Introduction Nurses take care of patients the most and are an important part of the healthcare team. The profession has many specialties, including pediatrics…

Journals introduce a new open and FAIR data policy Research data is of vital importance, with open sharing possessing the potential to advance research…

Consciously deciding you are going to create a new relationship with your writing takes guts. An enormous amount of guts. You need a healthy…

Our colleagues in the Taylor & Francis Books team have put together a useful series of guides, Author Directions, which helps new and aspiring…

The publishing process in academia – getting your article from your first ideation to printed – can be a tricky and sometimes tortuous path….

Standing up for science: hear from researchers, policymakers, and journalists Workshop led by Sense about Science Taylor & Francis supports Sense about Science, a…

New year, new resolutions. Whatever happened last term, whatever you did or did not manage to do is in the past.  January may be full…

In the last post I talked about the importance of having a timeline. So you don’t get derailed. So you don’t say yes to…

Are open access journals good quality? Common open access questions and myths explained Open access – the different types and trends, is one of the most widely discussed topics…

The most difficult part of building a viable pipeline is estimating how long something will take you to do. If you are just starting…

Open access – the different types and trends, is one of the most widely discussed topics in scholarly publishing today. It’s also one of…

One question which junior scholars (and sometimes senior scholars) struggle with is recognising good opportunities when they arise as distinct from a black sink-hole…

We are living in strange times indeed. At this point, you have probably been given 24 hours notice (at best) to take everything you…

Being forced to work from home isn’t like working from home by choice Academics are by and large used to working from home. Even…

In these extraordinary times, we want to support both the drive for research into COVID-19 and all our partners across the world as they…

This is the third in a series of blog about academic writing in the time of Covid 19. Whilst much traditional writing advice is…

A quick guide to open access publishing definitions

Today’s blog seeks to draw your attention to the new (old) HE environment. I say new (old) for a reason. It has become apparent…

The Academic Writing Course is big on scheduling. Many a module is on the joy of scheduling. I am big on scheduling. We don’t…

Workshop led by Sense about Science ‘Quality and Peer Review workshop’ is a FREE workshop hosted by Sense about Science which is the charity…

There are so many useful skills you’ll develop while doing your research – from critical thinking and being able to evaluate your work and…

The recent research has shown that nowadays students attitude to higher education has overcome a dramatic shift. Youngsters aged 18-24 studying full-time on a…

Today I want to talk about stalled research and how (and if we should) rescue it. Stalled research is perhaps the trickiest type of…

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Academic Coach is a big advocate of planning: it is a prerequisite of becoming a happier writer. Many academics don’t like to plan, and…

We often hear phrases that begin with “In contrast to…”. Moreover, students often face assignments where they have to compare two or more things…

The purpose of the Academic Coach Writing Course is to build up writers who feel stuck, and writers who are not stuck but need…