Tag: #decision
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The Academic Publishing Game Nobody Explains
Academic publishing isn’t a neutral evaluation of ideas. It’s a system shaped by incentives, risk, and limited attention. This article explains the game most researchers never see.
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How to Write a Discussion Section
Reviewers often say a discussion is “weak” or “descriptive” not because of poor English, but because it lacks structure. A strong discussion answers one question clearly: so what? This article introduces a simple 3-step framework to help you move from results to meaning—without writing more or citing more.
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The Hidden Cost of “Just Write More”
Academic writing practice is often reduced to a single piece of advice: just write more. While frequent writing improves fluency and confidence, it rarely fixes deeper problems of clarity, structure, and argumentation. Without deliberate thinking, practice can reinforce the very patterns that hold academic writers back.
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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.