Diigo bookmarks (weekly)

• Best practices for attribution - CC Wiki

  "Here are some good (and not so good) examples of attribution" (2015.04 19).

  tags: attributions best practices Creative Commons wikis

• Queen's University Belfast | Postgraduate Researcher Development Programme

  "The Programme offers students a comprehensive range of training courses, 1-2-1 support and skills development opportunities and is co-ordinated by the Postgraduate Training Team, based in the International and Postgraduate Student Centre. The Postgraduate Researcher Development Programme aims to support Postgraduate Research Students in developing a range of professional skills to successfully complete their research and increase their employability."

  tags: academia graduate students higher education postgraduates researchers skill sets support program(me)s universities

• Writing a conference paper

  Frazer, P. (n.d.). Writing a conference paper [PDF]. Retrieved from http://www.qub.ac.uk/sites/PostgraduateCentre/PostgraduateResearcherDevelopmentProgramme/FileStore/Filetoupload,379614,en.pdfThis postgraduate student writer's guide provides strategic advice and practical exercises. It covers the process from conference proposals to write-ups, and includes suggestions for further reading.

  tags: abstracts academic writing conference papers conferences theses titles presentations

  • This short handbook is designed to help you identify some strategies for success. These strategies are focused around the communication of complex ideas in an accessible and professional manner

• Impact of Social Sciences – Who, What, Where, When, Why: Using the 5 Ws to communicate your research

  In this LSE blog post, Andy Tattersall explained the practice and merits of creating lay summaries to expand audiences and increase impacts of research.

  tags: academic writing communication executive summaries five Ws lay summaries media reporting research & writing social media

  • A published paper has an abstract as a way for fellow researchers and students to quickly glance at whether the paper is useful for them. But an abstract is a very short, concise report of the research paper. A lay summary can expand on that and take the important information such as results and make them more prominent.
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• Mendeley | What advanced search features are there ...

  "Advanced Search Operators"

  tags: Mendeley reference managers searches

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