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Writing a University Research Paper
Writing a University Research Paper is primarily intended for university and postgraduate students who need extra practice in academic writing. The aim of the book is to improve and develop students’ academic writing skills. The sections hold comprehensive, thоrough and detailed information that is presented in a clear way. As well the instructions serve as a well-structured guide for those who are engaged in their first dissertation or thesis and/or for students wishing to write authentic academic essays. Writing a University Research Paper provides the user with the skills and knowledge to write research papers and/or essays in the context of university systems. It helps students by providing a step by step approach; provides prompts to structure thinking process about the assignment; provides guidance and tools to manage effectively each section of the research paper; provides checklists to edit the project and avoid possible drawbacks of the assignment. It can be used in the classroom by teachers of English for Academic Purposes as part of a wider course. However, the book may be either used as self-study.
This article deals with the history of "Publication Manual of American Psychological Association" creation. The Manual appears to be the basic recommendory source for academic writing in psychology and some social sciences using APA style in publication. There examined the impact of information overload and principle of industrial rationalization which determined the main approaches to creating of this Manual.
The purpose of this book is to teach students how to write extended essays in English. It is supplementary to the British course book ‘English for Academic Study: Extended Writing and Research Skills’ (Garnet Publishing Ltd.). It was designed for students , teachers and those who are interested in obtaining the skill of extended essay writing.
Abstract: skills and strategies which are in focus in an English for Academic Purposes course are described. The microskills and strategies to concentrate on in a Russian-speaking university audience are revealed. The outline of a lesson in which an abstract is produced is given.
The chapter discussed the problem how to arrange final segment of the research article, i.e. the conclusion and discussion sections. The chapter proffer suggestions on how to shape these sections better, in a more constructive way, i.e., how to present these sections of the article, and of the research project accordingly.
Institutions affect investment decisions, including investments in human capital. Hence institutions are relevant for the allocation of talent. Good market-supporting institutions attract talent to productive value-creating activities, whereas poor ones raise the appeal of rent-seeking. We propose a theoretical model that predicts that more talented individuals are particularly sensitive in their career choices to the quality of institutions, and test these predictions on a sample of around 95 countries of the world. We find a strong positive association between the quality of institutions and graduation of college and university students in science, and an even stronger negative correlation with graduation in law. Our findings are robust to various specifications of empirical models, including smaller samples of former colonies and transition countries. The quality of human capital makes the distinction between educational choices under strong and weak institutions particularly sharp. We show that the allocation of talent is an important link between institutions and growth.