Academic Writing Blog

Dictation Software & Applications

iPad the second has been released and apart from all the sexy bells and whistles it possesses one quiet modest little app that could change the lives of students and professionals who spend long hours at the keyboard banging out volumes of copy.

Online Identity

We all know that our online identity is self-created to a degree within our social networks, but Google your own name and you may be surprised to learn how many external sources impact our online identities as well.

Science & Technology

Science and Technology used to be two distinct fields that crossed over on occasion, particularly in the areas of chemistry and physics. Today the lines between these two fields are increasingly blurred and more fascinating than ever before. As such greater numbers of students are considering the combined field either specializing in one area and crossing over into the other or, as a conjoint degree.

State Scholarships

If you haven’t already started thinking about, and applying for, scholarships for next year, now is the time. Although many scholarships cater for a national or international audience the abundance of opportunity available at state level should definitely not be ignored.

Google Netbooks

It was bound to happen. Google has stepped off of the screen and into your mobile hardware offering Google Chromium based netbooks to the market. Google has gone head to head with Windows in what should prove to be a battle of epic proportions and that is of course, good news for the consumer.

Weird and Wonderful Postdoctoral Research Topics

Post doctoral research jobs can be the absolute best. That is because they are generally well paid, flexible and they provide post doctoral research students or faculty the opportunity to study and research some crazy and wonderful things. Here are some examples of the most weird and wonderful postdoctoral research topics, check them out!

Generation Labels

It has become customary to label each generation with a letter and a series of attributes that define them as distinct from other generations. The assumption is that each generation have an ethos, understanding and even language that is foreign to previous generations.

Student Loans, the Pros and Cons

Taking on debt when you’re young, want things, have little income and have courses to pay for seems, well like a pretty good thing to do. Unfortunately within six months of leaving school, with or without a degree, interest begins to accrue and repayments are expected.

Do students need insurance?

A lot of students reasonably deduce that if they don’t own their property they don’t need to insure it, likewise their cars and contents. Life insurance is a bit different but health insurance isn’t. Most people under 25 probably don’t and shouldn’t care about life insurance unless they are already settled with a family. Other insurance, - it’s fair to say you might need any one of these listed, here’s why.

Developing an Idea

People actively engaged in education often have great ideas and wonder if anything might come of them if pursued. A good measure of whether a concept will work is its ability to be translated and understood in practical terms.