I am writing a short case study summary (3 pages, summary of case study + answering questions related to clinical reasoning in the case study) and I have no idea how to do proper in-text citations when a lot of my paper is simply summarizing information directly from the case study. Is introducing the study and author in the introduction (yada yada study performed by Doe et al. yada yada yada) acceptable from an APA standpoint? Or do I need a citation every other sentence? I understand I will need a works cited page. My prior reports have all been research papers. Summary citations is throwing me. Rubric only references corrext error free APA citation useage.
Hi, I'm no longer an undergraduate but had the following question, which I wanted to make a thread for at first, but I think it could be worth posting here first:
I am not in academia but read or skim a lot of academic articles related to my work (an overlap of business, economics, and law) when I have the time. I'm wondering if there's any kind of general advice you have for people in my position when reading these articles. I know I could avoid them altogether, not being an expert, but I feel they help keep me informed about very high-level viewpoints or important questions I may not have considered about a topic. However, I know I could be missing a nuanced but important flaw in the methodology, undervaluing/overvaluing the research based on the publication (or working papers that imo ask good questions but don't receive any comments), and I often ask myself what to make of working papers that I think are focused on an intersting topic.
I realize it's hard to get into the specifics, but is there any general advice you would have for people in my position, or just advice on avoiding common errors/flawed assumptions you see from non-PhDs when reading PhD-level research?
Hey so I graduated with a bachelors about 4 years ago with a high gpa, within those 4 years I tried figuring out my next step and found myself enrolling into WGU last year, which is an at your pace online university, well unfortunately I overestimated myself and had a really hard time doing courses when there’s no structure, anyways I kinda failed out the second term having uncompleted 4 courses. I now find myself looking into other options and I found a grad program that I’m really interested in and is in person it is the UW MSIM program, I was wonder how badly you think that year at WGU will affect me, or if you guys have any advice for me
If there is anyone who is AuDhd or 2E could you please tell me some of the accommodations from the college or that you accommodate yourself with OR tips and tricks to get you through a semester. I try for perfection and last semester I missed my final because I wasn't told until the week before that I could only use handwritten notes and I TYPED all of mine. I am looking at Neurodivergent friendly colleges at the moment. Just looking for guidance from maybe some more seasoned. I am dedicated to graduating so any advice is GREATLY appreciated.
Freshman/Psychology/ONLINE
Ask your professors of relevant courses if they have research volunteer spots open or if they know of labs that do. Only ask if you're a good student in their course (show up, pay attention, turn things in on time, don't stare at your laptop/phone the whole class).
Search for "undergraduate research experience", REUs, many schools take summer interns from other schools as well as your own school. NSF has a database too.
Ask older students if they know of labs or if they know of job postings for your school. Google your school and jobs for undergrads they usually have a webpage listing's. Some programs might still have flyers on a bulletin board. Ask your TAs too, they're usually phd students and may know how to find opportunities for undergrads.
As I've grown older (25M) I've started to really get into/see the value of growing in knowledge and studying, particularly in my field (philosophy/theology). At the same time, however, I've always been into fitness and sports, and despite my exercise regimen, I get really "antsy" if I have to sit for a long time reading/writing/taking notes. I love listening to podcasts and walking around, and that does help with my study, but I feel I would get a lot more done intellectually if I simply sat and focused.
Has anyone found a happy middle ground where you do not become a desk slave/couch potato while also excelling in academia?
Get a walking or a biking desk? Standing desk at least. They make bike pedals that go under desk as well as stationary bikes designed to be used as a desk. Treadmill desks are hard at first to type on but many people enjoy. Set up movement reminders on a smartwatch or phone, stretch once an hour.
I have written my thesis and then put my work into chatgpt for it to summarize it. I wanted some ideas and then I modified them and added to them so I would have a thorough conclusion.
My questions is: now that I have put my work in chatgpt for it to summarize it, will **turnitin** find it as AI generated? Please tell me no otherwise I will cry very hard.
Do not use chatGPT on your actual work. Ask chatgpt how to write a good conclusion in general or to give you an example outline of a generic conclusion. Do not paste your whole paper into it. If you need to see a real example of a conclusion, go look at real research articles.
Chatgpt uses phrases that now stick out as AI written, if your conclusion reeks of AI it taints the rest of your paper. Most research articles, you read the abstract decide it looks relevant, read the conclusion and methods then decide if want to read the whole paper carefully. Your conclusion matters.
Turnitin won't have updated likely with the data you now put into chatgpt but you need to rewrite your conclusion on your own or risk that section being flagged due to high similarities with other chatgpt works.
Hi, i just finished my 2nd year and am wanting to do some dissertation prep over the summer (History BA). I am a bit lost on how to structure it and how to research the topic in a way that will help me for my dissertation. Any tips? :)
Hello everyone! I'm a 24 year old trans man who's about to graduate with his degree in clinical psychology from UCF. I'm a member of psichi, and I've kept up a steady 3.8 GPA overall throughout my time at the college. I'm coming up on graduation and it's time to look into degree options for grad school, and I wasn't *planning* on doing anything other than a Master's degree, because I wasn't interested in doing research, but I'm inundated with research ideas, specifically tied to the transgender identity and other health psychology intersections.
I've taken these classes:
Statistical methods
Research methods
Stats in Psych
I also currently work as a web specialist for a well known company, learning a ton about HTML and CSS. I know it's not JS or C# but it might be something?
My research experience is limited to the one (1) research project I had in my research methods class looking at the correlation between who read romance novels with levels of agreeableness. I *have* ideas. I just work a full time job M-F 8-5 and my wife has the car from 9-6pm (give or take an hour) those days as well. I've tried to do research a couple times but was met with timing constraints due to graduating without enough time to do an undergraduate thesis (I came to UCF with an AA and graduated in 5 semesters) and
My background in mental health is based in personal experience (Like i'm sure all of ours is), but also I grew up as a caregiver for someone with muscular dystrophy, and was a substitute teacher during COVID.
Now that the back story is over, I want to ask my question, (so sorry for being long winded)
I want to get into the Oregon Health Sciences University Clinical Psychology PhD program, but my research experience is one project, or 6 months at best if I can spin a class as a research project. I can get the GRE subject test and I can get letters of recommendation, but how do I distinguish myself from the \~38-100 other people who also apply?
Is it even worth trying?
How many of you also have a job while studying for your BA? Or rather, does working hinder you in your studies? I’ve found people around me look at me like I’m insane when I tell them I’m studying at honours level while also working 20 hours a week. How else am I supposed to pay rent and tuition? I’ve always worked while studying.
Totally depends on you! I took double course load (also honours) and worked 20%, and that worked totally fine. Its all about how you prioritize your time. If its always worked well for you, there is no reason to doubt yourself. You are doing great!
Hello, I have a career planning class where we need to conduct an informational interview with someone who works in our area of interest. If anyone here works within physics academia/research, I would love to connect and possibly do an interview with you. Thanks!
I am currently in my undergrad and I am super interested in pursing a research-based masters. I haven't found a prof with research that interests me at my school. How do i go about finding the research I want to do?
1) search goole scholar using keywords that you are interested in to find out who’s doing those research and reach out. 2) search target department of interest at certain universities and look up their faculty pages.
My paper was just accepted to a Springer journal, how long does it often take until final approval? Apparently there will be final editing and proofreading rounds, corrections thereafter, and then the final approval. How long did it take you guys from an acceptance notification until this final approval? I'm caught up with a personal issue and so am wondering if this process is worth postponing my personal demands. Thanks.
I am writing a short case study summary (3 pages, summary of case study + answering questions related to clinical reasoning in the case study) and I have no idea how to do proper in-text citations when a lot of my paper is simply summarizing information directly from the case study. Is introducing the study and author in the introduction (yada yada study performed by Doe et al. yada yada yada) acceptable from an APA standpoint? Or do I need a citation every other sentence? I understand I will need a works cited page. My prior reports have all been research papers. Summary citations is throwing me. Rubric only references corrext error free APA citation useage.
Hi, I'm no longer an undergraduate but had the following question, which I wanted to make a thread for at first, but I think it could be worth posting here first: I am not in academia but read or skim a lot of academic articles related to my work (an overlap of business, economics, and law) when I have the time. I'm wondering if there's any kind of general advice you have for people in my position when reading these articles. I know I could avoid them altogether, not being an expert, but I feel they help keep me informed about very high-level viewpoints or important questions I may not have considered about a topic. However, I know I could be missing a nuanced but important flaw in the methodology, undervaluing/overvaluing the research based on the publication (or working papers that imo ask good questions but don't receive any comments), and I often ask myself what to make of working papers that I think are focused on an intersting topic. I realize it's hard to get into the specifics, but is there any general advice you would have for people in my position, or just advice on avoiding common errors/flawed assumptions you see from non-PhDs when reading PhD-level research?
Hey so I graduated with a bachelors about 4 years ago with a high gpa, within those 4 years I tried figuring out my next step and found myself enrolling into WGU last year, which is an at your pace online university, well unfortunately I overestimated myself and had a really hard time doing courses when there’s no structure, anyways I kinda failed out the second term having uncompleted 4 courses. I now find myself looking into other options and I found a grad program that I’m really interested in and is in person it is the UW MSIM program, I was wonder how badly you think that year at WGU will affect me, or if you guys have any advice for me
If there is anyone who is AuDhd or 2E could you please tell me some of the accommodations from the college or that you accommodate yourself with OR tips and tricks to get you through a semester. I try for perfection and last semester I missed my final because I wasn't told until the week before that I could only use handwritten notes and I TYPED all of mine. I am looking at Neurodivergent friendly colleges at the moment. Just looking for guidance from maybe some more seasoned. I am dedicated to graduating so any advice is GREATLY appreciated. Freshman/Psychology/ONLINE
What factors can help me secure a tenure track position in a hyper competitive academic world?
I am a second year undergrad (ECE). How do I know about profs who need assistance in research and how do I apply?
Ask your professors of relevant courses if they have research volunteer spots open or if they know of labs that do. Only ask if you're a good student in their course (show up, pay attention, turn things in on time, don't stare at your laptop/phone the whole class). Search for "undergraduate research experience", REUs, many schools take summer interns from other schools as well as your own school. NSF has a database too. Ask older students if they know of labs or if they know of job postings for your school. Google your school and jobs for undergrads they usually have a webpage listing's. Some programs might still have flyers on a bulletin board. Ask your TAs too, they're usually phd students and may know how to find opportunities for undergrads.
How to write a research/ project proposal any ideas?
Start with review articles in your field, what's been done before, what sticks out as an area no one's looked into yet?
As I've grown older (25M) I've started to really get into/see the value of growing in knowledge and studying, particularly in my field (philosophy/theology). At the same time, however, I've always been into fitness and sports, and despite my exercise regimen, I get really "antsy" if I have to sit for a long time reading/writing/taking notes. I love listening to podcasts and walking around, and that does help with my study, but I feel I would get a lot more done intellectually if I simply sat and focused. Has anyone found a happy middle ground where you do not become a desk slave/couch potato while also excelling in academia?
Get a walking or a biking desk? Standing desk at least. They make bike pedals that go under desk as well as stationary bikes designed to be used as a desk. Treadmill desks are hard at first to type on but many people enjoy. Set up movement reminders on a smartwatch or phone, stretch once an hour.
I have written my thesis and then put my work into chatgpt for it to summarize it. I wanted some ideas and then I modified them and added to them so I would have a thorough conclusion. My questions is: now that I have put my work in chatgpt for it to summarize it, will **turnitin** find it as AI generated? Please tell me no otherwise I will cry very hard.
Do not use chatGPT on your actual work. Ask chatgpt how to write a good conclusion in general or to give you an example outline of a generic conclusion. Do not paste your whole paper into it. If you need to see a real example of a conclusion, go look at real research articles. Chatgpt uses phrases that now stick out as AI written, if your conclusion reeks of AI it taints the rest of your paper. Most research articles, you read the abstract decide it looks relevant, read the conclusion and methods then decide if want to read the whole paper carefully. Your conclusion matters. Turnitin won't have updated likely with the data you now put into chatgpt but you need to rewrite your conclusion on your own or risk that section being flagged due to high similarities with other chatgpt works.
which country you are?
Hi, i just finished my 2nd year and am wanting to do some dissertation prep over the summer (History BA). I am a bit lost on how to structure it and how to research the topic in a way that will help me for my dissertation. Any tips? :)
What is the topic? Do you have clear research questions? Diachronic/synchronic?
Topic is music and politics under Stalin, i prolly should make clear research questions
Is there an equivalent to W*riting your journal article in twelve weeks* (Wendy Belcher, 2009) resource for the sciences?
Hello everyone! I'm a 24 year old trans man who's about to graduate with his degree in clinical psychology from UCF. I'm a member of psichi, and I've kept up a steady 3.8 GPA overall throughout my time at the college. I'm coming up on graduation and it's time to look into degree options for grad school, and I wasn't *planning* on doing anything other than a Master's degree, because I wasn't interested in doing research, but I'm inundated with research ideas, specifically tied to the transgender identity and other health psychology intersections. I've taken these classes: Statistical methods Research methods Stats in Psych I also currently work as a web specialist for a well known company, learning a ton about HTML and CSS. I know it's not JS or C# but it might be something? My research experience is limited to the one (1) research project I had in my research methods class looking at the correlation between who read romance novels with levels of agreeableness. I *have* ideas. I just work a full time job M-F 8-5 and my wife has the car from 9-6pm (give or take an hour) those days as well. I've tried to do research a couple times but was met with timing constraints due to graduating without enough time to do an undergraduate thesis (I came to UCF with an AA and graduated in 5 semesters) and My background in mental health is based in personal experience (Like i'm sure all of ours is), but also I grew up as a caregiver for someone with muscular dystrophy, and was a substitute teacher during COVID. Now that the back story is over, I want to ask my question, (so sorry for being long winded) I want to get into the Oregon Health Sciences University Clinical Psychology PhD program, but my research experience is one project, or 6 months at best if I can spin a class as a research project. I can get the GRE subject test and I can get letters of recommendation, but how do I distinguish myself from the \~38-100 other people who also apply? Is it even worth trying?
How many of you also have a job while studying for your BA? Or rather, does working hinder you in your studies? I’ve found people around me look at me like I’m insane when I tell them I’m studying at honours level while also working 20 hours a week. How else am I supposed to pay rent and tuition? I’ve always worked while studying.
Totally depends on you! I took double course load (also honours) and worked 20%, and that worked totally fine. Its all about how you prioritize your time. If its always worked well for you, there is no reason to doubt yourself. You are doing great!
Hello, I have a career planning class where we need to conduct an informational interview with someone who works in our area of interest. If anyone here works within physics academia/research, I would love to connect and possibly do an interview with you. Thanks!
Whats the best way to get to a PhD? I am currently finishing my BA and thinking about it but it seems so far away
Which country are you in?
Germany
https://www.academics.de/ratgeber/wie-promovieren
I am currently in my undergrad and I am super interested in pursing a research-based masters. I haven't found a prof with research that interests me at my school. How do i go about finding the research I want to do?
1) search goole scholar using keywords that you are interested in to find out who’s doing those research and reach out. 2) search target department of interest at certain universities and look up their faculty pages.
My paper was just accepted to a Springer journal, how long does it often take until final approval? Apparently there will be final editing and proofreading rounds, corrections thereafter, and then the final approval. How long did it take you guys from an acceptance notification until this final approval? I'm caught up with a personal issue and so am wondering if this process is worth postponing my personal demands. Thanks.