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7. Write up your academic paper


How to prepare
your academic paper
Start
Steps to prepare your academic paper Find Internet resources Evaluate the resources found Situate the subject within its context Find articles from journals Find books, journals, audiovisuals, etc. Formulate the subject of your academic paper Write up your academic paper Cite your chosen resources Find Internet resources Evaluate the resources found Situate the subject within its context Find articles from journals Find books, journals, audiovisuals, etc.

Once you have finished your search for information and evaluated the resources found, it is time to sit down and start writing.

Remember that you can complement your writings by inserting citations from other documentary sources to give support to your ideas and comments. In this case, you must faithfully reproduce the texts and/or images. Always indicate the author and source (a book, a pamphlet, a web page, etc.); otherwise you would be committing a plagiarism.  

If you are not sure how to start organizing the information you have, or how to make a summary, or if you have difficulty in writing an introduction, or you want to know when to mention a reference, etc., there are some helpful manuals available in the Library and in other sources on the web:

Useful tools for writing
In the Library catalog (manuals)

Fletxeta Art d'escriure [Authorship]
Fletxeta Art d'escriure -- Llibres d'estil [Authorship -- Style manuals]
Fletxeta Escrits tècnics -- Redacció [Technical writing]

Websites

Fletxeta Centre de redacció [Writing Centre] (Facultat de Traducció i Interpretació de la UPF) Only UPF members [Campus Global identification required]
Fletxeta Com escriure i publicar documents [How to write and publish documents] (Universitat de Barcelona)
Fletxeta Llibre d'estil de la Universitat Pompeu Fabra
[UPF style book]
Fletxeta Vademecum del español urgente [Urgent vademecum for Spanish] (Agència EFE)
Fletxeta Llibres d'estil [Style books] (Universidad de Navarra)

 

Steps to prepare your academic paper Find Internet resources Evaluate the resources found Situate the subject within its context Find articles from journals Find books, journals, audiovisuals, etc. Formulate the subject of your academic paper Write up your academic paper Cite your chosen resources Find Internet resources Evaluate the resources found Situate the subject within its context Find articles from journals Find books, journals, audiovisuals, etc. Formulate the subject of your academic paper Write up your academic paper Cite your chosen resources

Last updated 30-10-2008
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