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Guide to Writing Academic Articles: Part X

Writing an academic book review.

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One relatively simple way for ajarns and advanced students to get a publication credit is to write a book review for an academic journal.

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Guide to Writing Academic Articles: Part IX

Footnotes

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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.

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Guide to writing academic articles, part IV

Writing the literature review for an academic article

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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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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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