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11 Tips on Getting References for Grad Schools
For graduate schools, these letters of recommendation are a vital part of the application package that helps admissions understand a student. But more, letters of recommendation often provide insight into an applicant’s potential in graduate-level study.
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What Are the Top 10 Academic Resources Online?
One academic resource online is Google Scholar, a search engine that allows you to browse through reams of scholarly articles quickly. Its repository includes books, abstracts, court opinions, technical reports, and other scholarly literature from academic publishers, professional societies, universities, and more. You can search Google’s body of scholarly literature, explore related works, locate complete documents, and check citation statistics of published authors in one convenient site.
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15 Important and Helpful Tools for Thesis Writing
We have compiled a list of 15 important and helpful tools that can make your thesis writing experience more productive and (dare we say it) enjoyable.
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9 of the Best Academic Blogs by Leading Professors in their Field
Compiled for their excellence, longevity, and continuing relevance, these academic blogs by professors all feature thought-provoking posts.
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Top Academic Search Engines
The following is a list of the top academic search engines, each with a different focus and specialty, to make your research efforts easier and faster.
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How To Write a Great Research Paper: 10 Simple Steps
The key to writing a quality research paper? Setting yourself up for success with Petal. Our platform streamlines your research, so you can focus on your analysis.
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Five Secret Pitfalls of Academic Research, and How to Avoid Them
Here are five mistakes students tend to make when researching academic papers, even when they appear to be doing exactly what is asked of them.
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Career Resources from the Top
Take a look at the career resources from the world’s top universities to empower your career search as a graduate student.
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Citing 101: How to Choose Citation Formats and Why
Proper citation is necessary to credit original authors for their hard work, provide proof for your research, and enable readers to investigate your sources.
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A Brief History of Academic Citation Styles
What started as a way to record the transaction of goods across trade routes, writing has evolved into the complex system that we know of today.
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How I Survived the First Semester of Grad School
Now, it is time to start thinking about how you will get through your first semester. The three things you need to prepare for the most before your first semester of grad school are student life, coursework, and research.
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How Artificial Intelligence is Changing the Education Landscape
While AI will never supplant human teachers, it can help facilitate and enhance active engagement between students and educators. Presently, the lack of dedicated funding is a barrier to implementing AI technology broadly.
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Interview: The Petal Way
At Petal, we strive to make our interviews fun and conversational. After all, not only do we want to know you, we want you to know us!
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Student Freebies and Discounts you Need to Discover
Paying full price while you are in school can be hard to do. If you know where to look, you can get steep discounts on things like food, shopping, productivity tools, arts, and entertainment.
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7 Clever Ways to Save Money on Your University Textbooks
Students spend hundreds of dollars each year on textbooks. Fortunately, there are lots of great resources that you can use to save hundreds of dollars on the textbooks you need.
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Can Technology Improve Education in Less Developed Areas?
The global pandemic has highlighted the many ways technology can enable education outside of a traditional classroom setting. However, this is far from a new development.
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Surviving Grad School
You finally made it through college, and now you are taking the next steps in your education; grad school. It is exciting. There is a lot to relish, but it is not all roses and it is starkly unlike your undergrad experience
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Top 4 ways you are misspending your time in grad school
How you manage your time will affect how successful you are in your graduate studies so manage it wisely by avoiding these top grad school time wasters.
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How to Write Like You Went to Harvard
Academic writing is, above all, an exercise in discovering, managing, and creating new understanding.
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8 Ways to Maximize Use of Your School's Writing Center
You are sitting in the stacks, with a cup of coffee, wondering how you will turn the two pages of incomprehensible gibberish in front of you into a sensible essay before tomorrow morning.
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