About this website

450px-PTT_flame_2Anthony Haynes writes: This open-access website provides practical resources on writing and communication.

I run the website personally — that is, entirely separately from my company, Frontinus Ltd. My company website provides a further series of resources on research writing and communication, in the form of Writing Protocols.

The resources here, which are downloadable, are in the form of PDFs or PowerPoint slide decks. If you’d like to suggest a way to improve any of the resources, please use the comment box at the bottom of the relevant page(s).

Disclaimer

We’ve provided these resources in good faith in order to offer general guidance. Of course, they won’t be suitable for very occasion. Treat these resources critically and adapt them for your own circumstances.

Other sources of guidance are available and I recommend that you seek guidance from more than one source.

Provenance

‘Using social media’ was written by Aoife Brophy Haney. ‘Using bibliographic software’ was written by Irenee Daly. Case studies have been contributed by Ipshita Mandal and Yash Mishra (‘Writing, designing, and presenting posters’) and Antonia Symeonidou and Wenrong Lu (‘Applying the All-purpose Tool’). The remaining resources were written by me.

Typically the resources has been reviewed by early-career researchers. Reviewers include Krish Mahbubani, Amy Chesterton, Ting-Yueh Liu, Ipshita Mandal, Yu-ting Wu and Jacob Brubert (all Cambridge) and Maruta Herding (Deutsches Jugendinstitut).

Much of the early work on the resources was done, and with, researchers from the School of Technology in Cambridge, especially the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology.

Since then the site has been used by researchers from several other universities, notably Luxembourg, New South Wales, Heriot-Watt, and Nottingham.

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  2. Dear Anthony,
    Thank you so much for the extremely useful information you shared on this website.

    As a part-time student who has been working for many years and never done any academic research, I was both lost and worried and overwhelmed by the academic writing requirements. Your website and the content provided have given me very practical guide to start, giving me much needed confidence to complete the journey ahead.

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    Best,
    Grace.

  3. Dear Anthony

    Thank you for your help. I have edited the first chapter of my thesis following the advice in the supervision session. The advice is very helpful. The edited content is simpler and logical. Next, I am going to edit the abstract following the guidance on the abstract.
    Best Regards

    Ying

  4. Thank you for this site. I came to know of it through a workshop in Critical Thinking at Heriot-Watt University and I am finding it extremely helpful. I wish there were more sites like this with actual tools for improvement.

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