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Research hacks #8: How to know when “good enough” is good enough in academic writing
It is a given that in academia you don’t have enough time to make everything you do as good as it possibly could be. How should you deal with that? You should know when “good enough” is good enough, stop, and move on to the next thing. You should… know when you’ve read enough secondary material
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Research hacks #7: Read everything, but not in the same way
If one thing is non-negotiable about academic research in the arts and humanities, it is that there will be a lot of reading. In fact, there will almost certainly be too much reading, so you’d better have a strategy to cope with the bibliographical tsunami headed your way. You can’t read every word that has