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Crowdsourcing
I think there is no chance of me benefiting from crowdsourcing in my research. However, I would like to share a past experience. As a non-native speaker, I have problems with terminology, prepositions or sometimes sentence structures. There is a high possibility that a word I use is in use in a different sense by … Continue reading Crowdsourcing
Thing 16
Considering I am not a published academic, I chose a journal article [AlJahdali, Samar H., ‘Venturing into a Vanishing Space: The Chronotope in Representing Palestinian Postcoloniality’, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 50 (2014), 216-229] and a book [Moore, Lindsey, Arab, Muslim, Women: Voice and Vision in Postcolonial Literature and Film (London: Routledge, 2008)] for this thing. … Continue reading Thing 16
Thing 11
One of the most helpful things for my research has been Thing 11. I personally would not look for podcasts, online courses or slides specifically for research if it was not reminded. Although I have had a Coursera membership for 4 years, I am not particularly interested in the courses. When I was looking for … Continue reading Thing 11
Reference management tools
They are, I believe, life-saver tools for us researchers. I found RefWorks available for use when I was still MA student once upon a time. I knew how it worked and how it is easy to reference with it using write and cite tool for Word. I began to use RefWorks as a PhD merely because of … Continue reading Reference management tools
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