4 Tips to overcome that dreaded academic writer’s block
What is writer’s block? It starts as a creeping anxiety. There is a different weight in your feet as you near the blank page on your desk. It is as …
How to write an academic abstract for your thesis? [Checklist Included]
How do you write an academic abstract for your thesis? What is an abstract useful for and what are the differences in academic abstracts? You didn’t even know that there …
How to Write an Academic Journal Article In 11 Easy Steps
Have you asked yourself how to write an academic journal article? Or are you looking for a way to hand in your valuable thoughts to a journal? When it comes …
The Benefits of Attending an Academic Writing Workshop
You have a deadline for a paper for a conference you haven’t progressed past the opening paragraph? You committed to submitting an article you completed weeks ago to a prestigious …
Teaching academic writing and publishing – 5 facts about budrich training
In 2008, Barbara Budrich and two business partners founded the training company, which was initially called Text-Uni. Since 2012, it has been operating under the name budrich training. It started …
How to get writing – Blog post from Barbara Budrich
Writer’s block can be a real pain in the proverbial. You can see that deadline approaching and you know that you have to hand in this manuscript and soon. However, …
Academic writing tools you absolutely need to be using
Facing that First Blank Page Hemingway had his preferred writing tool. It was amber, came in a bottle and left his eyes as bloodshot as those of a PhD candidate …
How to choose the right proofreader for your dissertation
The dissertation thesis represents the crowning glory of your doctoral studies. The high-quality research and thought you exerted demands similar meticulous proofreading before its final submission. The devil is in …
How to write a great PhD dissertation proposal
The importance of a quality dissertation proposal Described as “the crowning achievement of the graduate study years”, the PhD dissertation proposal is the first step towards two major engagements that …
5 Ways To Improve Your Academic Writing
Academic writing can be hard, what with fighting writer’s block, tapping into creative thinking, researching and then producing a grammatical masterpiece. Ticking all those boxes perfectly can be somewhat daunting. …