Tell us about a change to your approach to writing for academic assessment. What changes have you made, recently, to your approach?

By Louise Lynch   Louise is a post grad student at UL and she is also a mature student with many other responsibilities outside of college obligations, so wiring in a time efficient way is a genuine priority. Recently she has changed her approach to writing and these two actions have saved her time and …

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Can you tell how you motivate yourself to write? What do you do? Go for a run? Listen to a CD? Drink four litres of Red Bull? What do you do to get going?

By Ivan Smyth, 20. Ivan is a second year Journalism and New Media student. His interests include sports, writing and exercise.  Firstly, I would like to say that there is no right or wrong way to inspire yourself to write productively. In this post, I will discuss what techniques work for me.   Commit to a …

Word Prompt for August, 2018

Tell us about your experience of an assignment that you found unclear about what it was asking you to do or unclear about what the teacher wanted to know about what you know. What did you do? Was the strategy a good one or a poor one? If a poor one, what would you do …

“Concise, precise, and complete”

By Fernanda Zamboni, School of Engineering, University of Limerick   Hello everyone, My name is Fernanda and I am an international student here at UL. Currently, I am doing a PhD in Biomedical Engineering. In this post, I will try to tell you the problems that I encounter when I am writing. However, hopefully, I …

My Love/Hate relationship with writing

By Roisin O'Donoghue I have a complicated relationship with the written word. I mean, I love writing about things that I know and care about whether it’s a comment on a Facebook post or blog post about university. However, because there are so many different types of writing, there are many ways to feel about it. …

How a bit of procrastination helped me to get the right motivation

By Gianni Angelini, Professional Technical Writer and Masters Student. So, finally the game is over: I did it! I worked out how to accomplish my first Masters research report! If I look backward, here's what I see: one week of procrastination, one week of gathering data and thinking about what to write, and one week …

Putting the puzzle together

By Rachel Cahalane, PhD student. For me, I decided to undertake a PhD because I am very passionate about the research area that I am involved in. However, I think I forgot that by agreeing to do this I was also (unknowingly) agreeing to produce quality pieces of writing. At the beginning, I really struggled …

How I made it through in “just” five years!

By Deirdre Lynch, PhD, MIEI. For me, a big part of the challenge was mental. The idea of completing a PhD thesis was so overwhelming to me I could not comprehend ever finishing it. The task was too huge, I could just not see myself completing it. Then a friend told me about a technique …

False friends can be your best friends: a game for English learners

By Gianni Angelini, Professional Technical Writer and Masters student. "Push forward!", that's what the Language course director told me the last day of the academic English writing course. It was just the end of last August, and I was trying to win my fears about not being able to engage in academic writing during the …

Starting an Essay… Eventually: Tackling Small Goals to Tackle the Big Goal

By Rachel Helgeson, 2nd year student. I consider myself a writer. But the hardest thing for me to do is to start writing. It’s taken me a good few days just to start this article. I’d bet you’d expect that someone who calls themselves a writer would actually enjoy the idea of receiving a new …