Tag: articles
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Blogging taking a back seat for now
I’m in the process of writing up the final parts of my PhD and am hoping to submit a first full draft in August, in preparation for a final submission in November. I’m doing it by publication and so am focusing my attention on the last 2 articles I need to complete. I’ve published two,…
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Mendeley and Dropbox
A little while ago I finally hit the 500 MB free storage limit of Mendeley, which isn’t surprising considering how I go about collecting research papers. Whenever I come across an article that looks like it might be mildly interesting / vaguely related to my work I copy it into a folder that…
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Great Prezi on writing for publication
I’ve been doing a lot of writing this year, trying to catch for lost time at the end of last year, with the result that I’ve been thinking about writing a lot. At times, it had become more like getting through a list of tasks than the expression of meaningful ideas, which is why I…
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Knol: a unit of knowledge
http://knol.google.com/k/knol and Wikipedia article on Knol Knol, described as “a unit of knowledge” by the project’s creators, is a new initiative by Google that allows anyone to write an article, called a “knol”, about any topic. It’s a bit like Wikipedia in that respect but is limited to discrete articles with no links between them.…