Posts tagged: academic writing

Tags, Hashtags, Keywords, and Categories

If you click around my site you will notice that many of the articles, presentations, and projects are “tagged”. These tags are also listed on the right side of the site to help people navigate quickly to all of the entries that relate to a particular topic. Tags are common in blogs, wikis, and other websites. Hashtags play a similar role on Twitter (e.g., I use #p544 to identify tweets related to p544, a class that I teach). These tags all serve a similar role to the keywords that are often presented in an academic journal or conference submission website–they help to quickly and easily identify the broad categories that a work relates to.
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categories Academic Tools | Joshua November 14, 2009 | comments View Comments

Publication Manual of the APA

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This book is indispensable for anyone who wants to publish in the majority of education or psychology journals since they typically require APA (American Psychological Association) style. Even if you aren’t interested in doing that, though, it may be quite helpful as they have sections about how to write clearly and concisely, how to present your results well, and how to address issues such as bias or describing the population you are studying in a respectful manner.

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categories Academic Tools | Joshua November 12, 2009 | comments View Comments