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Documenting your work for promotion and tenure
Setting up a filing system now is a gift to your future self.
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How to write a narrative CV
This document should strongly demonstrate your capability as well as the feasibility of your proposed work.
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Drafting the budget for your first SSHRC grant application
Early career researchers tend to be too cautious when budgeting, but if you justify your costs in detail, you will show the reviewers that you have considered all options.
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Writing for peer reviewers from outside your field: lessons from non-fiction
When you need to explain a niche subject to a broader audience, contextualizing big numbers and using sensory metaphors can help to explain your research.
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Telling your research story with numbers: impact metrics for the humanities
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Writing to be heard online
Tips for giving effective conference presentations during the pandemic.
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The book review is dead
To make a humanities book review work for you, defy the conventional.
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How to show your project’s worth in social science and humanities research proposals
There are several different ways to define the “significance” of your research in a SSHRC application.
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Using the active voice strategically
How and where to edit for active voice constructions in your academic writing.
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Literature reviews that work
Techniques for coherent, analytical lit reviews.
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Effective science communication deconstructed
Strategies to engage the public in your research topic.
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How to write persuasively in promotion and tenure documents
Be sure your application shows the significance of your work while focusing on your most compelling accomplishments.
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Doing anti-racist academic work
How to practice and perform anti-racist research, teaching, and service.
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Getting your book read when you’re a humanities scholar
Part 2: Strategies to extend your monograph’s reach.
