Advice for authoring a PhD or academic book

How conservative publishers and authors risk killing off books and chapters across university social sciences and humanities

Blogging changes the nature of academic research, not just how it is communicated

How to do smarter, proactive planning-and-realization of projects, reports and articles, from the outset

Do one thing well. Flatten the structure. Say it once, say it right.

Get prepared now for a move away ‘legacy’, print-orientated practices

Also called ‘reverse outlining’

Avoid bogus over-precision and un-needed complexity, but give readers full data labels

References should lead to full texts wherever possible 

in research texts (articles, books and PhDs)

Four principles for improving how you display tables, graphs, charts and diagrams 

Here’s how to easily change, if you want to

Rapoport’s Rules for critically handling literature and reviewing articles 

Be substantive and communicate your key findings 

Final impressions are lasting — make them good ones

A checklist of ‘viva’ issues that always come up

Bring Your Stories and Ideas 

We’ve made the best writing tool on the web.

Improving your public speaking despite hating crowds

Do “linking forward” at the ends of chapters instead

Every part of your text does one of these three things

Ways to assess your paragraphs or sentences

Six ways to get it wrong, and four steps to get it right

Is it high energy and clear, or low energy and diffuse?

Or would a Research Methods Annex be better?