Community Aspects – Page 33 – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

The PhD’s New Clothes, or: Anonymous Information regarding Plagiarism

2013-08-22

Are anonymous informants about plagiarism like informers in a totalitarian state? Or aren't they acting in the same way science operates, by looking at the evidence and coming to conclusions? Some suggestions.
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“Oh, du weißes Blatt, inspirier’ mich … oder besser nicht!” — Wissenschaftliches und fiktionales Schreiben ohne Inspiration (aber mit Inhalts-Outlines, Scrivener, u.v.m.)

2013-08-07

I've written a brochure about scientific writing. It's written in German and I can only highly recommend it if you are working on your thesis -- and understand German.
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Even if you quit and leave academia, you take the best thing with you.

2013-08-02

If you are an Academic, you likely draw a lot of your identity from being one. So what happens when you (have to) leave Academia? Things are not as bad as they might seem, here's why.
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Where the heck did I find that image? (also: uh-oh, Cyberstalking)

2013-07-19

If you want to use an image but don't know where you found it (so you cannot cite it and thus should not use it), there's a simple solution for it. Which also works wonders in cyberstalking.
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“Slap your adviser (and I hope, s/he slaps you back).”

2013-07-10

You do your best in writing a peer-review and then you realize that this person should have a serious conversation with his/her adviser. A very serious one. Best bring a cattle-prod.
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Dealing with Secondary Sources

2013-06-17

How do deal with articles citing other articles in an content outline -- which one do you add with which source information, and why?
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Workshop: Scientific Work — Writing #3 Re-Writing

2013-06-14

Third part of the writing series, here about perfection in texts, the importance of re-writing, how to do revisions and keeping older versions (which Scrivener makes effortless). Also: Recommended Literature.
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We didn’t know it was impossible.

2013-06-13

Beautiful PhD Comics video which stresses an important issue in research -- sometimes not knowing can be helpful, if otherwise you know a lot.
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Workshop: Scientific Work — Writing #1 Getting Down to Write

2013-06-10

How do you get your ass in the chair (or where ever you write) and make it a habit? Some suggestions for starting a wonderfully excruciating journey.
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Job Search in Academia

2013-06-09

Some comments on job applications in Academia -- and why it should not be treated as panhandling. More importantly: Some suggestions for job applications.
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Besides Blog Postings about multiple topics, the draft version of the third edition of “Organizing Creativity” is freely available as PDF here.

Get the book (yup, free to download :-))

The worksheets to the book are currently being created. The ones that are ready in version 1 are:

Best regards

Daniel

A comment for those seeking to use this site for personal gain: Given the increase in requests, let me be clear. I write on this blog because I want to. It’s my hobby, my playground. Sometimes people point me to interesting products/services and I write about them. But any request regarding ads or sponsored placements ends up the trash without a reply. And if you think something would be of interest, differentiate yourself from the spammers by referring to a posting — in an intelligent way. (I get enough auto-generated mails to identify them immediately.)

BTW, posts can get updated after I published them if I spot spelling errors (not a native speaker) or think a different wording might improve precision and clarity.

This blog is not focused on a single topic, or method. As long as it is relevant to improving creativity (or allowing it in the first place), it's fair game.
Some postings on this blog deal with freedom, as I think that we need freedom of thought, of speech, of association, etc. pp. to solve mankind's problems. Thus, some postings may seem a bit remote when it comes to organizing creativity. Freedom is, however, the bedrock of creativity.
The heterogeneity of the postings can make reading this blog a bit cumbersome, at least if you are only interested in one topic. You can either use the search function (above), or use the categories or the tags to narrow down the postings you see.