Quick tips to condense word count in your dissertation

A dissertation is usually around 80,000 words. As a research candidate, you strive hard to stick to the word limit in your dissertation, lest you get penalised. Therefore, before beginning with your writing process, always create a rough framework of your dissertation and allocate a certain word limit to each of its respective sections. When … Continue reading “Quick tips to condense word count in your dissertation”

A Quick Guide to Hypothesis Testing in Statistics

This article provides a beginner’s guide to master hypothesis testing in statistics. An example is provided to explain how the guide works. Hypothesis testing is an important factor for predictive modelling in the field of statistics. Hypothesis testing consists of the following important concepts: Z-value (Z), a statistical term, which is the measure of the … Continue reading “A Quick Guide to Hypothesis Testing in Statistics”

Is it Possible to Avert Accidental Plagiarism by Students?

Plagiarism, lately has become a very common problem at college level and all students at university level need to be aware and at the same time cautious of it as it can have severe consequences if one isn’t careful or proactive. Often it so happens that researchers or amateur writers indulge in plagiarism out if … Continue reading “Is it Possible to Avert Accidental Plagiarism by Students?”

How Does a Dissertation Outline Help?

Firstly, let us understand what is a dissertation outlines so that if you are one of those who is writing a dissertation and does not have one yet, you wait no more and create it as the first thing after reading this blog. A dissertation outline is a list that is a summary of the … Continue reading “How Does a Dissertation Outline Help?”

A lot of writing advice may be just futile for scholars. Why?

PhD students have a huge amount of writing advice available to them. There are large number of books, blogs and articles that are going around and increasing in numbers to extend advice to PhD writers so that they can handle it easily. However most of that advice is similar and does not come to much … Continue reading “A lot of writing advice may be just futile for scholars. Why?”