Writing

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.

Zotero might or might not be a tool you want to recommend to your students. But it definitely could help simplify their work—and yours.

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.

You might think citing a grammar according to the “SBL Handbook of Style” would be straightforward. It is, but there are several special cases to account for.

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

Logos can give you access to an extensive digital library. And with 5 simple steps, you use that library properly in your research.

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

When you select a font, you select its size in a unit called “points.” But the font face also affects the visual size of lines and type on the page.

You can save yourself a lot of time by letting Word handle title page formatting—particularly when you’re vertically justifying the title page text.

If you delegate your title page formatting to Word, you can save time formatting. A key preparatory step is to properly segmenting your title page text.

If you delegate your title page formatting to Word, you can save yourself time spent formatting.((Header image provided by Etienne Girardet.)) You can also end up with a title page that’s more precisely formatted.

To start delegating your title pages to Word, there are four basic steps. The first of these is to capitalize and center your title page text.

To illustrate how to format your title page text, I’m going to assume you’ve set up your essay’s title page in Word like I recommend.

You can space your title page content simply by entering blank paragraphs. But if you do so, you set yourself up for more work and at least three problems.

To pass your title page formatting off to Word, you need to start by understanding what SBL style requires in formatting your title page.

To follow the “Student Supplement for The SBL Handbook of Style,” there are three key steps to editing the styles for your table of contents.

It’s not immediately clear how to customize some formatting for tables of contents. The key to make the formatting “stick” is to modify its styles.

Microsoft Word can quickly create tables of contents so that the headings and page numbers update along with your document.

In Microsoft Word, a “style” is a collection of one or more pieces of formatting information. Styles are especially helpful when you use them to format your headings.

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.

Chris Bailey and James Clear, author of “Atomic Habits,” discuss habit formation and the impact that small habits can have.

Instead of simply focusing on skill development, Scott Young suggests that “benchmark projects” will tend to be more effective.

Emmanuel Nataf outlines several concrete practices to develop in order to foster consistent writing.

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.

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.

The guidance about page number placement in the “Student Supplement for the 𝘚𝘉𝘓 𝘏𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘣𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘰𝘧 𝘚𝘵𝘺𝘭𝘦” is mostly clear. But some of it takes some guesswork.