Explore all the stages of the research process in 2021.
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2020 is past, but resources are still present!
Find master links to all thematic MethodSpace posts from 2020.
Categories: Cross-Cut and Collections, Focus Series, Other
Continue ReadingHow to Run an Academic Writing Retreat
Since it started in 2011, Academic Writing Month has seen a growth of workshops and initiatives aimed at helping researchers to prioritise writing projects. In 2020, as many researchers are in lockdown and working from home, there are new challenges for concentrating on and completing writing. In this post, Andy Tattersall outlines his experience running online writing […]
Categories: Academic Writing Month, Focus Series, Impact, Instruction, News, Other, Teaching, Writing and Editing
Continue ReadingAnd So to Conclude: In Search of a Happy Ending
Is there anything worse than writing conclusions? Even beginnings are easier, I find, than summing up, because I can trick myself into starting by telling myself ‘I’m just taking some notes‘. ‘I’ll put that quotation I like as an epigram.’ And don’t get me wrong. I love reading conclusions. What academic doesn’t? I could never read EVERYTHING in full, […]
Categories: Academic Writing Month, Focus Series, Other, Publishing, Tools and Resources, Writing and Editing
Continue ReadingAcademic Writing with Pen in Hand
Academic Writing Month is a focus for SAGE MethodSpace each November. Each year we offer posts about the practical skills and forms or publication relevant to researchers and writers. (See the unfolding series for AcWriMo 2020.) I wrote this post for AcWriMo 2018, but today is Fountain Pen Day, so I am revisiting it. During […]
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Continue ReadingForget Publish or Perish – It’s #VisibleOrVanish
On MethodSpace, Academic Writing Month 2020 is focusing on Publishing Trends, and What They Mean for Academic Writers. One trend is an increased interest in moving beyond the dominance of print, and sharing research and findings using media. In this guest post, Dr. Tullio Rossi talks about the steps you can take to ensure that […]
Categories: Academic Writing Month, Creative Methods, Focus Series, Other, Presentation, Visuals, and Creativity, Publishing, Tools and Resources, Video, Writing and Editing
Continue ReadingCan Action-Oriented Research Help Social Science Be More Relevant?
In his posthumous address to his discipline, the late public administration scholar Christopher Pollitt lamented its diminishing relevance and standing, laying blame on a deep-seated institutional division. On one side he noted a tendency toward ‘detached scholasticism’ in which academics engaged in insular and increasingly abstracted conversations with little relevance, or even concern, for the practical utility […]
Categories: Academic Writing Month, Action Research, Focus Series, Other, Research
Continue ReadingRecording & Resources: How Librarians Can Adapt and Thrive Through Covid-19
A SAGE webinar for librarians, and those who work with them.
Categories: Focus Series, Instruction, Online Learning, Other, Research
Continue ReadingShare What You Know
See this collection of resources to help you think about how to disseminate your research in informal or formal ways.
Categories: Dissemination, Focus Series, Other, Podcast, Publishing, Writing and Editing
Continue ReadingResearch about Academic Careers in the Covid Era
New research and observations about academic careers and the Covid pandemic.
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Continue Reading“Breaking Methods” Video Series
We are in a time of change, and research methods are not immune. See this series of short video cases demonstr
Categories: Focus Series, Other, Research, Supervising and Teaching Research Skills and Roles
Continue ReadingTips for Faculty Who Mentor Students Who are Working Professionals
Working with adult students or new researchers on your project? These tips might help!
Categories: Focus Series, Instruction, MentorSpace, Other, Research, Research Roles, Research Skills, Supervising and Teaching Research Skills and Roles
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