Academic Writing Blog

Right Brain/Left Brain

Creative or Logical? Knowing which of these dominates your personal thinking and processing style could go a long way to self understanding and development. For those who have dominant right or left brain attributes, recognizing these can help us to understand the personal strengths and weaknesses of our individual processing characteristics.

Top 10 Tips for the Prom

The prom, a tradition that just keeps getting better and prom season is in full swing. For many this is the highlight of high school, the reward for making it through to the end of the year. Prom signals the end of the hard yards for another year and summer break just around the corner.

Using Virtual Reality to Learn

It may sound far fetched but it is already happening in a whole range of industries from dentistry to psychology. In fact virtual reality already affords researchers with mass samples in behavioral sciences and other human studies, general sciences and business.

Top 10 Exam Tips

It’s the nail biting, vomit inducing, stress building, anxiety busting time of the year again; exam time. To help you through with a vestige of your sanity intact, and maybe even some great results, it’s time to revisit the best study and prep advice for exam time.

Posting an Online CV and Using an Employment Site

For research job seekers that information is vital to successful employment. It isn’t enough to simply browse jobs occasionally in hope of success because there is a very good chance your dream job will never be posted online or elsewhere. In the competitive research marketplace that’s an edge you can’t afford to waste.

The School, Family, Work, Life Balance

Most of us find that just two of school, family, work and/or life will take just enough time and energy for us to be able to cope while still finding enough time for rest and relaxation. While each of these has its own reward, each is also time consuming and carries inherent expectations and responsibilities. Most of us also have to deal with the fact that it is extremely likely that we have to cope with all four and we most probably always will.

University Patents

There may still be questions and concerns with regard to who owns what aspects of the intellectual property but all-in-all if the university is handling the process it’s usually straight forward.

Technology & Self Concept

Is the number of Facebook friends a person has indicative of how popular they are? Maybe, maybe not. It seems there are actually instructional websites which will teach you to be more popular on Facebook. Unfortunately, I don’t think anyone except the self deluded individual would consider that strategy a mark of popularity.

Summer jobs

Spring is in the air and the March break is over so the time is right to start thinking about what you might want to do for money over the upcoming summer holidays. It’s probably a bit early to start sending applications but it isn’t too early to set some goals. Considering what you want now will set you on the path to organizing your thoughts and paperwork appropriately.

Science Research

The increasing prevalence of super-bugs and the use of disease in bio terrorism have prompted in part, the growth of this industry. The combination of a super-bug, or even a more traditional bug (the smallpox virus still lives in two labs in the world), and biological warfare could be as devastating to the world as a nuclear bomb.