Category: Practice
Real research workflows, decisions, failures, and practical execution.
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5 Critical Academic Writing Mistakes That Make Papers Unclear
Most papers labeled “unclear” are not suffering from bad English, but from weak thinking and structure. Here are five common mistakes reviewers see.
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Academic vs Everyday Writing
Many researchers struggle with academic writing not because their English is weak, but because they are writing in the wrong mode. Everyday writing relies on shared context and generous readers. Academic writing does not. It demands explicit claims, precise meaning, and reasoning that can survive scrutiny.
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Research Workflow – Part 7: Interpretation Is Where Most Research Quietly Breaks
Most research doesn’t fail because the methods are wrong. It fails quietly at the point of interpretation—when results are asked to mean more than the data can honestly support. Research interpretation is where every earlier decision in a study becomes visible.
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Research Workflow – Part 6: Bias Is Not a Technical Problem—It’s a Thinking Problem
Bias is often treated as a technical flaw to be fixed during analysis. In reality, it enters much earlier—through referral patterns, documentation habits, and assumptions about who counts as data. By the time statistics begin, most bias has already done its work.
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Research Workflow – Part 5: What You Choose to Measure Decides What You Will Never See
Once a study design is chosen, many researchers feel the hard thinking is over. But what you choose to measure quietly decides something far more important: what your study will never be able to see. Measurement is not neutral. It defines what counts as reality—and what disappears before analysis even begins.
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Research Workflow – Part 4: Choosing a Study Design That Can Actually Answer Your Question
Most research projects don’t fail because the analysis is wrong. They fail much earlier—at the moment the study design is chosen. The failure is subtle. The question sounds reasonable. The literature review looks thorough. The methods section appears sophisticated.
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Research Workflow part 3: When Reading Should Stop, and Writing Should Begin
How to know your research question is ready to be tested, not perfected. While you have to read a lot but still do not feel ready to write.
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Research Workflow part 2: Why Researchers Get Lost Before the Question Is Clear
Why unclear research questions distort reading—and how to fix the workflow
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Research Workflow part 1: Why workflow matters more than knowledge
During my third year of residency, I began working on my thesis—confident in theory, but completely disoriented in practice. This article reflects on why the real challenge in research is not knowledge, but the absence of a clear workflow.