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A precisely formulated research question is becoming increasingly important within the humanities. This applies not only to research funding applications, but also to articles, papers, and student theses. This article presents a tool allowing students to develop research questions on their own, which is open enough to allow for a wide variety of research questions, while still giving users sufficient guidance to formulate a precise question. It also offers a concrete roadmap for students to use in developing their research question. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

On this I paper I provide 14 tips to improve academic writing. I argue that problems to write academically stem firstly from a weak training and secondly from an attempt by authors to sustain a pose that ties academic writing to grandiloquence and obscurity. Given that those problems are socially determined, they are open to be formalized, tackled and overcome. I take an epistemologically antirealist standpoint, therefore academic writing takes a central role. My proposal is to write simply and it does not intend to be superior in any way to those other aesthetical stances that academic writing embodies. Every tip consists of a wide treatment of the problem at hand, some examples and a series of practical guidelines. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]