Gigwise

Top 7 Digital Tools That Make Research and Writing Easier

Research and writing once demanded long hours of manual work. Students flipped through books, copied references by hand, and spent extra time fixing formatting problems after finishing their papers.
The Chronicle of Higher Education

On Grant-Writing: Just What Are Your Project’s ‘Specific Aims’?

If you’re an academic seeking an applied-research grant, the most-read element of your application will be the “specific aims” page. It serves as the face of your research proposal, and is often the ...
Inside Higher Ed

Teaching Research in the First-Year Writing Classroom in the U.S.

Sritama Chatterjee is a second-year Ph.D. student in the Department of English at the University of Pittsburgh. You can find her on Twitter @SritamaBarna. Given this situation, it may be challenging ...
C&EN

Writing the Research Plan for Your Academic Job Application

A research plan is a thoughtful, compelling, well-written document that outlines your exciting, unique research ideas that you and your students will pursue over the next half decade or so to advance ...
The Daily Eastern News

EIU Writing Center relocating to Booth Library next fall

The Writing Center at Eastern Illinois University will be permanently relocated to the second level of Booth Library starting ...
The Nation Newspaper

Project writing palaver

Writing a graduation thesis is one task many students, at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels do not find easy. It can be a rather lonely journey – one that everyone has to embark upon, alone, ...
Penn Live

Bucknell research project writing the book on school's involvement in World War I

Participants in the October 2018 Bucknellians at Meuse-Argonne Cemetery, France in World War I research and commemoration trip to France. Left to right: Professor of Comparative Humanities John Hunter ...
Medicine Buffalo

Writing Citizen Science and Community in the Niagara Region

This project invites students to use their academic research and writing skills to impact current communities and political conversations about local and global sustainability in the wake of ...
Purdue University

Ross-Lynn Research Scholar Fund

The Fund can be used to support one year of a Ph.D. student stipend/tuition and fee remission or one year of a post-doctoral scholar stipend and benefits unless the funding is used to fulfill a ...
University of New Haven

Research by Public Health Fellows at the University of New Haven Leads to Multiple Peer-Reviewed Publications

Recent Master of Public Health graduates from the University of New Haven’s WeEmbody Lab co-authored multiple peer-reviewed ...
Forbes

A Guide For Pursuing Independent Scientific Research Opportunities In High School

Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin and Nikola Tesla: these famous scientists are known for their innovation and intellectual curiosity. For students who also dream of becoming an ...