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Getting to Grips with Academic Writing

Posted on 7th December 201528th August 2018 By Leo Casey No Comments on Getting to Grips with Academic Writing
Getting to Grips with Academic Writing

Yikes ! I can’t write this assignment! Some students find it difficult to get to grips with academic writing tasks. Whereas they often understand key concepts associated with an assignment or task they find it very difficult to express these in writing. The problem can lead to stress and frustration on all sides as written…

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Ten Tips for Writing Academic Papers

Posted on 3rd February 201328th August 2018 By Leo Casey No Comments on Ten Tips for Writing Academic Papers

Completing academic writing assignments is one of the most important skills you will need to develop as a student.  This is true regardless of your subject or discipline. Based on my own experience writing and correcting papers and discussions with students I have compiled these ten tips to help you get going.  I have used…

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How to Write a Literature Review for a Dissertation

Posted on 11th December 201128th August 2018 By Leo Casey 1 Comment on How to Write a Literature Review for a Dissertation

Writing a Literature Review Writing a dissertation is one of the great learning tasks of college education. However, many students find it a daunting process. One of the first challenges you face is writing a literature review and the purpose of this post is to help you get started with the process, to keep you on track…

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Wikipedia as a source in academic writing

Posted on 5th September 200927th August 2018 By Leo Casey No Comments on Wikipedia as a source in academic writing

Have you ever heard of Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi?Pestalozzi was a Swiss educationalist – he had interesting ideas for progressive education – at the start of the nineteenth century he was advocating an enlightened approach to schooling.   Perhaps in a future blog I will further discuss Pestalozzi but the topic I have set out above is…

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Plagiarism Reframed

Posted on 6th May 200926th August 2018 By Leo Casey No Comments on Plagiarism Reframed

Mention plagiarism to any third level academic and you are likely to be greeted with groans and laments.This is one topic that gets into people’s hearts – it leads to animated discussions and hard views. It is unwise to be regarded as soft on the issue. It is annoying, very annoying to be reading something…

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