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Mind the audience: teaching elegant professional writing

Posted on April 24, 2020June 6, 2020by Melina Aarnikoivu

Since we started this blog, our main aim has been to offer value for the community of (early-career) higher education researchers, but also to pretty much anyone ending up reading these pages. Another thing we wanted to do with […]

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How I fell in love with experimental universities—and made them the topic of my doctorate

Posted on April 16, 2020April 24, 2020by Dara Melnyk

Anyone would agree that choosing the right topic for a doctorate is important. We all want to do something that matters, right? So we may fantasize about the thrill, writing all-nighters, and talking […]

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From writing articles to editing someone else’s: journal editorial work from an early-career researcher’s perspective

Posted on November 18, 2019December 1, 2019by Melina Aarnikoivu

Two weeks ago, on November 1st, I experienced a new kind of pride that I hadn’t felt before during my doctoral studies. The first issue of a new higher education journal, Journal of Praxis in Higher Education (JPHE) […]

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Thinking strategically: what can co-authorship bring to your academic career?

Posted on September 23, 2019July 13, 2020by Abel Polese

While in lab-based disciplines co-authorship is the norm, there are “individual(istic)” disciplines where it is sometimes still frowned upon. In general, co-authorship is not bad per se, and there is nothing negative in being the 4th or even the 99th author, especially if we are talking about a highly cited paper.

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Call for Participants: ECHER Academic Writing Clinic

Posted on March 6, 2019July 8, 2019by ECHER
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Many early-career scholars face challenges with academic writing. Native English speakers or not, most of us spend a considerable amount of time trying to lay down our thoughts in a coherent and meaningful way, repeatedly rewriting and […]

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Academic writing as conversation: one important step towards a published paper

Posted on December 17, 2018September 9, 2019by Katerina Guba
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Experienced scholars describe writing as joining conversations within a particular field of interest (Patriotta 2017). Having analyzed his experience of editing the Journal of Management Studies […]

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