What's is 'academic' about academic writing?

I recently read an unpublished manuscript titled 'Why is academic writing so academic?' by Joshua Rothman (2014, https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/why-is-academic-writing-so-academic )....

03 April 2018 7,032 0 View

When is as study described corpus-based, corpus-driven or hybrid?

I want clarification to the above questions as it has been argued that any corpus linguistic study at least adopts one of these approaches.

06 July 2017 7,298 5 View

How is a critical review on an edited collection written? How do you approach such a review?

Mostly, one is asked to review an article in an edited collection. But in a situation when one is asked to review all the papers within the 'book', how does one approach this kind of critical review?

09 October 2014 5,494 3 View

Can somebody suggest to me journals that charge no submission or publication/processing fees that publish papers in applied linguistics?

In recent times, lots of journals require some charges or fees before papers are published. This is really a hindrance to emerging scholars who desire to communicate their knowledge through this...

03 April 2014 6,867 0 View

What is the best way of teaching 'spelling' to unversity students?

I want someone to help me with the appropriate approach and methodology to teaching 'spelling' to university students

11 December 2013 6,430 11 View

Is metadiscourse useful in academic writing?

Crismore et al. (1993) define metadiscourse as: "linguistic material in texts, written or spoken, which does not add anything to the propositional content but that is intended to help the listener...

31 December 2012 6,235 1 View

Do we need to write protocol for a second study of a systematic review that has been registered and published?

I have conducted and published a systematic review and meta-analysis research with the topic related to public health and health pomotion (protocol was registed in PROSPERO). Now we want to...

03 March 2021 8,920 3 View

Ideas for Phd's Thesis on pricing (Marketing)?

Hi everyone, I'm studying Marketing and I would like to write my PhD thesis on the topic of pricing. Any specific ideas?

02 March 2021 9,706 5 View

How to write a scientific report?

We are analysing scientific reports at University in great detail, so I wanted to find a scientific report about how to write a scientific report. Including detail such as what information to put...

02 March 2021 7,602 4 View

New Journal, "Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science" -- do you not know, and have you not seen, this done before?

Question to you and THEM, the New Journal, "Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science" -- do you not know, and have you not seen, this done before? There appears to be a core problem for...

02 March 2021 3,024 2 View

Could any one guide me, to write research proposal for grant? ?

We have one plant, the local people using this for controlling blood sugar, the toxicity and antidiabetic activity of the plant is not reported yet, please guide from whag should be the process ?...

02 March 2021 2,300 1 View

Energy minimization in LAMMPS using NVT ?

How do I do energy minimization in lammps with NVT ensemble ? I am using the following command and it does not seem to work. It stops at extremely high energy and gives me the error zero search...

01 March 2021 2,294 3 View

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01 March 2021 3,905 5 View

How to Balance Bench work with Reading and Writing?

I am a second-year grad student. I am finding it difficult finding time to read literature and write (things like qualifying exam, thesis, grants). I find myself so busy with bench work that I...

01 March 2021 3,325 4 View

Could you please recommend some good journal that accept very long revie papers (approximately 6000+ words) in neurosurgery, cancer biology ?

Could you please recommend some good journal that accept very long revie papers (approximately 6000+ words) in neurosurgery, cancer biology ?

01 March 2021 8,087 3 View

How to highlight novelty in your research paper?

I have come up with a method and had written a paper on it. Paper got rejected by a journal stating that there is no theoretical novelty. I am kind of confused on why the novelty that I am able to...

28 February 2021 2,393 8 View