Academic writing is very different to the SEO blog content I used to crap out at an old job, but that approach to writing might behelpful.
I’d start with the title of the piece, then skeleton it out with subheadings, and expand on those subheadings to populate the body.
It’s a great way to structure your writing even when you don’t have the mental capacity to start. Then you can think about your argument before you do a bulk of the writing and you’re not staring at a blank page when you sit down to write again.
Also, check if the text editor you’re using has a referencing tool. It makes putting them in and your bibliography so much easier if you’re not using it already
Well, I have a bit of a skeleton going now thanks to a few meetings with my supervisor and emails summarising the overall logic flow.
Where I’m getting a bit stuck is going through the literature to actually understand what the hell I’m talking about. I find myself getting lost in the weeds without being able to understand what I need to focus on at this stage of the project. The specific area of research is an area I didn’t have much exposure to in my coursework so it’s kind of on me, choosing to jump into the deep end… but I feel like I’ve made some progress by getting through a couple of particularly dense papers and starting to how everything is connected, adding notes to the skeleton as I digest the papers.
I like need 3 more entire days to just smash through this but I frustratingly have to work to earn money and all that shit, and it’s mostly screen based work… I’m going to see how much I can get away with phoning it in at work this week so I don’t lose my study momentum
This is where I would kind of work backwards and skeleton out my writing, then look for anything in the research papers that supports it. I know it’s not so easy to Ctrl+f academic papers because they’re so dense, but you can skim until you find what you’re after.
If you’re not having luck then you adjust your argument to something more along the line of what you’ve read so far
Academic writing is very different to the SEO blog content I used to crap out at an old job, but that approach to writing might behelpful.
I’d start with the title of the piece, then skeleton it out with subheadings, and expand on those subheadings to populate the body.
It’s a great way to structure your writing even when you don’t have the mental capacity to start. Then you can think about your argument before you do a bulk of the writing and you’re not staring at a blank page when you sit down to write again.
Also, check if the text editor you’re using has a referencing tool. It makes putting them in and your bibliography so much easier if you’re not using it already
Well, I have a bit of a skeleton going now thanks to a few meetings with my supervisor and emails summarising the overall logic flow.
Where I’m getting a bit stuck is going through the literature to actually understand what the hell I’m talking about. I find myself getting lost in the weeds without being able to understand what I need to focus on at this stage of the project. The specific area of research is an area I didn’t have much exposure to in my coursework so it’s kind of on me, choosing to jump into the deep end… but I feel like I’ve made some progress by getting through a couple of particularly dense papers and starting to how everything is connected, adding notes to the skeleton as I digest the papers.
I like need 3 more entire days to just smash through this but I frustratingly have to work to earn money and all that shit, and it’s mostly screen based work… I’m going to see how much I can get away with phoning it in at work this week so I don’t lose my study momentum
This is where I would kind of work backwards and skeleton out my writing, then look for anything in the research papers that supports it. I know it’s not so easy to Ctrl+f academic papers because they’re so dense, but you can skim until you find what you’re after.
If you’re not having luck then you adjust your argument to something more along the line of what you’ve read so far