What is proof texting? How to negotiate the insider/outsider paradigm? These are just two questions discussed in this free INCISE lecture.

Prof. Dr. Bee Scherer (VU Amsterdam) covers essential skills for academic study and research (in Buddhist Studies and, more generally, in the Humanities and Social Sciences), through progressing topics relevant for undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral levels; including

• effective course preparation;
• plagiarism;
• referencing;
• effective reading;
• finding sources;
• argumentation;
• note taking;
• essay writing;
• time planning;
• methodology
  • narrative/auto-biographical writing;
  • ethnography;
  • historical/archive/desk research;
• hermeneutics;
• academic writing skills.