VCSEwiki:Writing manual

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Introductory steps

  • You can use prewriting techniques for identifying your theme. Some brainstorming is really useful before you start!
  • For academic writing, very specific research question needs to be developed.
  • There are several issues to consider when developing your title: a clearly defined title will help make the writing process interesting and manageable. An inappropriate title that is not clear or too broad will make the process difficult.
  • Write literature review in the introduction of your article. Summarize or evaluate what other scholars have written on your topic.
    • You can use provided rules for writing annotation here.

Ethical code of conduct

Texts published in this Wiki (including your own writing assignments) respect GNU Free documentation licence - exactly as Wikipedia articles.

In using ideas, materials or information of somebody else you have to follow basic ethical principles of academic writing: respect copyright of the work you borrow information from. Please consider following resources to realize diversity of copyright and your rights and obligations in realtion to authors:

Academic writing - rules

Study following sources:

Precising and reviewing

  • Revise your text: upgrade your text according to the quality criteria.
  • You can start with the text analysis!
  • Offer your article to the peer review process - it is a basis for evaluation.
  • You can find external links, web pages where additional info on the topic.