MindFire Reports
ABCs of APA Style
Finding a Dissertation Topic
Leading Breakthrough Meetings
ABCs of APA Style
If you are a student who is new to the nuances of American Psychological Association (APA) style and you find the process of using it somewhat confusing, join the club. Learning APA is like learning a foreign language, a necessary but daunting task.
ABCs of APA Style provides a wealth of practical, concrete information that will enable you to write correct APA citations easily, both in your texts and in your reference lists, for those “vital few” sources of information that constitute the majority of reference citations.
This will save the time you would otherwise spend revising your work to correct it for basic APA errors, and will thus maximize your productivity and effectiveness. Most importantly, by applying the advice in this detailed report you will quickly learn to write like a scholar, not a student.
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Finding a Dissertation Topic
While finding a doable, researchable dissertation topic may seem simple enough, it is, in fact, one of the most challenging tasks that most doctoral students face.
The purpose of this report is to present and guide you through a unique, three-step process that will enable you to make the leap from (a) a personal or professional problem that you have a strong desire to study to (b) a corresponding research problem that, when properly investigated, will demonstrate to your university that you can design, conduct, and report the findings of a research project.
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Leading Breakthrough Meetings
There are many ways to design and run an effective meeting. However, most people don’t know what they are or how to apply them properly even if they do.
Based on Breakthrough Business Meetings: Shared Leadership in Action (which Edgar Schein of the MIT Sloan School of Management described as “one of the most theoretically sound yet totally practical books on meetings and group management that I have ever read”) and reflecting the author’s twenty years of experience as a manager, organizational change consultant, and meeting facilitator, this report describes 12 proven, integrated ways to enhance the productivity and effectiveness of all of your meetings.
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