Footnotes
Whether you should use footnotes or not in your academic article or thesis depends on the subject you are writing about.
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Guide to Writing Academic Articles: Part VIII
Choosing the right keywords
If you have taken time and trouble to write an academic article or other published work, you will want others to be able to find it.
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Guide to Writing Academic Articles: Part VII
Documenting References or Citations
Writing references or citations in an article is arguably the least amusing aspect of research, but is absolutely necessary.
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Guide to Writing Academic Articles: Part VI
Acknowledgments
Writing acknowledgments in an article or thesis shows that you are a polite person, and appreciate when someone helps you.
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Guide to writing academic articles: Part V
Prepare your brain for the challenge of writing in English.
It is hard to overemphasize the real challenge that writing in English presents even for the great majority of educated Thai people. Academic-minded people with high levels of learning and achievement in other fields find themselves poorly prepared for the task of writing in English. No Thai student or ajarn should ever feel personally embarrassed or ashamed because of this widely shared problem, because it is not a single individual’s fault.
Guide to writing academic articles, part IV
Writing the literature review for an academic article
Part of any academic article or thesis is the literature review. In Thailand, the first thing to remember is that the word “literature,” when used to describe previously published books and articles on any subject, is singular. That means we refer to the “literature” on a topic even when many examples exist. In Thai English, people often say the “literatures” but like much of Thai English, this is incorrect and unidiomatic. So you will be writing a literature review and not a “literatures” review.
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Guide to writing academic articles, part III
How to write an abstract
People write abstracts because they are required to do so by editors or ajarns, but keep in mind that an abstract is written to be read.
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Things to Think About before Posting Material on Social Media
When you read something you like, your first thought may be to post it on Facebook, even if it is quite lengthy. To avoid trouble, ask yourself this question first: who owns what you are posting?
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New Books: The Lives of Chang and Eng
A new book in the Thammasat University Libraries collection should appeal to all readers who care about the international image of Thailand in world history.
The Lives of Chang and Eng: Siam’s Twins in Nineteenth-Century America by Joseph Andrew Orser is published by the University of North Carolina Press.
Guide to Writing Academic Articles: Part II
Choosing a subject and title
1. Topics
The first choice to be made for anyone hoping to publish scholarly work is to select a subject. This requires some thought and preparation, but as in all aspects of writing for publication, the more you prepare, the better the result.
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