Research

Right-to-left text like Hebrew can sometimes cause unexpected results in Zotero citations. But if so, it’s easy to straighten things out.

Sometimes, you work with sources that involve some extra complexity if you’re going to cite them properly.((Header image provided by Zotero via Twitter.)) Rather than making these changes one by one, however, Zotero allows you to make them automatically any time you cite a given source. That way, you only have to work out once how to cite a source once. After that, it’s saved in your library, and you can focus on how you want to discuss that source rather than on how you need to cite it. ...

Different languages and styles have different capitalization conventions. But Zotero can handle all these different requirements for you.

What ISBNs do for books DOIs do for all kinds of sources. And if you need DOIs in your citations, there are some simple ways to collect them.

School, work, and life are complex. You need a way of managing your commitments. If you’re looking for this, Todoist might be the tool for you.

You need to scale up your research timeline because of inaccuracies in small samples, differences between projects, and the planning fallacy.

You can better understand how long your research project may take if you track your progress, set your scope, and scale your timeline.

Your research question can be known or unknown by your audience. But they need to have the question before you can answer it.

Purple, or remarkable, research shares some common elements. But it can also have different shades depending on who it’s for.

Seeing how others work can give us helpful ideas for honing our own craft. Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at my essay in “Scripture First.”

Michael Hyatt has a brief, helpful discussion of differences in mindset between successful and unsuccessful creatives.

Alex Stewart provides a number of pro tips for busy writers in biblical studies. Alex stresses the importance of taking a long-term view of one’s writing.

David DeSilva provides several pro tips for busy writers in biblical studies. David stresses the importance of “no” and working on one project at a time.

The guidance about page number placement in for SBL style long essays is clear enough. Achieving this placement in Word can be too with some simple steps.

Now a good five years in the making Alan Ng and Sarah Korpi, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, have made openly available online a German grammar.

The guidance about page number placement in for SBL style short essays is clear enough. Achieving this placement in Word can be too with some simple steps.

Daily Gleanings about the open access journal “Old Testament Essays.”

Zotero makes it very easy to edit notes beyond what a particular citation style allows. Unediting notes is also simple but less immediately clear.

Anthony Le Donne provides several pro tips for busy writers in biblical studies. Anthony stresses self-awareness and prioritizing your dissertation.

Jason Maston provides several pro tips for busy writers in biblical studies. Jason stresses working on projects that matter to you in your specific context.

Daily Gleanings about Origen’s position on Paul’s authorship of Hebrews and the importance of reading primary literature.

Daily Gleanings about improved cross-compatibility among word processors in Zotero and about exporting information from PhraseExpress.

Craig Keener provides several pro tips for busy writers in biblical studies. Craig stresses scheduling writing time and working on one project at a time.

Nijay Gupta provides a number of pro tips for busy writers in biblical studies. Nijay stresses the importance of planning, organization, and persistence.

In this series, we hear from mid- and later-career scholars who have successfully created habits for productive writing in busy lives.

Daily Gleanings from Larry Hurtado about early Christian investment in manuscripts and “extant” evidence.

Daily Gleanings from Roger Pearse about the translation of the King James Version and AWOL about Brill’s “Digital Biblical Studies” series.

Daily Gleanings on “Paul, a New Covenant Jew” and from J. T. Ellison on productivity as a writer.

On theLAB, Dougald Mclaurin discusses how faculty can “work with librarians to help students write better papers.” Similarly, see also these prior discussions about how to use your school’s library or other libraries near you. From Brill: With the publication of Keeping Watch in Babylon, Brill is happy to have published the 100th volume of the series Culture and History of the Ancient Near East. ...

De Gruyter Open has a number of volumes in classical and Ancient Near Eastern studies via open access. HT: AWOL Freedom continues the dialog over Apple’s added rules that effectively removed much of Freedom’s functionality for new iOS users. ...