An annotated bibliography is an expanded bibliography, offering additional brief annotations – or notes – on each source. This article explains the purpose of maintaining an annotated bibliography and illustrates with examples for both STEM and SSAH.

Implications and recommendations are usually written after the study has been completed, and both appear at the end of the research paper, in the Discussion section. This article explains the difference between implications and recommendations along with examples.

Perhaps one of the most accessible forms of academic publication, a book review can be written by researchers at any stage of their career. This article explains the process of initiating and writing a book review. At the end, it also provides a couple of examples of good book reviews.

Building your research paper around a narrative format can help the reader follow the ‘story’ of what you’re bringing across more easily, thus enabling them to absorb the information more readily. This article discusses the benefits of telling a story in your research paper and shares some pointers for doing it well.

Scientific literature is categorised as either primary or secondary literature. This article delves into the differences between the two, and also addresses the question of which type of literature is allowed to use which as a reference.

Grey literature is literature other than the more formal ‘academic’ forms of research papers, journal articles, books or conference proceedings. This article outlines some of the key details about grey literature and how to use it in your research.

Have you considered looking beyond academic sources to find other types of relevant work in your field? In this article, we explain how to look for and engage with non-traditional forms of literature for your literature reviews. 

A bibliography is a list of sources appended to a research paper for readers to consult if they wish to obtain more information on anything covered in the paper in question. This article offers information about a bibliography and also explains how it differs from a reference list.

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Having mentally formulated the necessary steps to conduct and complete a piece of research, you might now be wondering how to articulate this effectively to communicate your work to your peers. This is where a research proposal comes in. This article provides essential pointers for writing a successful research proposal.

The difference between a concept paper and a research proposal lies mostly in the level of detail and the potential audience, based on which your approach towards writing each will vary. In this article, we dig deeper into the differences between a concept paper and a research proposal and recommend when to use which.

This article discusses ways in which you can plan and write your paper to ethically and organically increase its chances of citation once published. There are several measures you can adopt before starting the actual writing, during the writing stage and through self-citing.

This article suggests several strategies you can adopt to promote your accepted or published paper for increasing the chances of it getting cited.

In this two-article series, we offer some tips on the casing of chemical compounds. In the first article here, we look at rules for lowercase prefixes.

This article is the second in a two-article series on the casing of chemical compounds. This article explains the rules for capitals and small capitals. 

Style guides tend to disagree about whether there should be a comma before the final ‘and’ or ‘or’ in a list. This is known as the ‘serial’ or ‘Oxford’ comma, and it is a subject of some debate. This article gives an overview of the Oxford comma and provides some guidelines about its use.

In academic writing, people naturally want to come across as being objective, and this often includes using the ‘passive voice’. But exactly what is the passive voice (vis-à-vis the active voice), and is it always right to use it in academic writing? This article explains what the active and passive voices are and gives some suggestions about when to use each.

Selecting keywords after some careful deliberation can bring you multiple benefits as a researcher trying to get noticed in your academic community, not least by making your paper more discoverable. This article gives you some tips on how to choose the right keywords, what to avoid as keywords, and, once you have chosen the appropriate keywords, how to format them.

When writing your research paper, it is important to state the broader parameters and boundaries of your research. This forms the scope and delimitations of a study and helps to contextualise the research for the reader so they can better anticipate the extent of the details to come. This article explains the two concepts with examples.

Academic writing has its own style and conventions, and is often regarded as a dry retelling of the facts. However, this does not mean that you can’t make it easier for audiences to engage with your writing. This article discusses how developing a particular, personal voice or style can help improve your writing, and therefore, your audience’s engagement.