Stephen Ede

10/02/2026

How to motivate your supervisors to read your work

Turn it into a manuscript and tell them you want to send it out for journals publications with their names listed.

Lol, they will read it with glasses👓

Not nececassry because they want paper shaa, well, they don't want you sending out rubbish with their names 🙄

06/02/2026

The thoughts and the paper takes shapes simultaneously and develops slowly with revisions

06/02/2026

Writing is not the expression of thought, it is thought itself

You need writers/thinkers in your team

23/10/2024

I had to discuss the decision making tree for statistical test/ data analysis with some group.
I needed a diagram to help facilitate the discussion but all I found online was either incomprehensive or hard to understand. So I decided to draw a more self explanatory one. Here is what I got. Let me know if you find it helpful...

15/07/2024

15/07/2024

Continuing with the how to read and understand series....

How do you know you have grasped a point and are ready to move on to those you have not?
This would be possible by using tools like flashcards, nailing your understanding to things that help you remember them effortlessly.
Mnemonics and acronyms are made using the power words in a text arranged in their orders. There is what is called PPT for slide making. Therein are power words. These words help you remember the rest of the context and content of that passage.
Mnemonics are created by using the first letters of the power words to create easy-to-remember phrases, rhythms, or poems. For instance, the four lobes of the brain can be remembered using Frued Tore his Pants Off. Which are frontal, temporal, parietal, and occipital.
Whereas, acronyms are like abbreviations, created by just joining the first letters to form something easy to remember. For instance, if I am reading about the symptoms of PD, I might use acronyms like BMR.PT. This is an acronym and it is easy for me to remember because as PT, this is my qualification.
With these memorable resources as a flashcard, you could spot what needs more attention.
The figure on the right is more like a summary of what we’ve discussed—a new material…

13/06/2024

Note-taking helps to listen better. It re-affirms the neural passages when you write and listen. Is commonly said that to write is to read thrice.
Many times, the most you can get from note-taking is jotting. This is like a piece of information written swiftly.
But in note-making you are creating your own reading material during your study time; it could mean consolidating/summarising from multiple sources. Say-the jotting and recommended reading materials. Sometimes first years have lots of source materials on the same topic-. Is okay to read all of them but you might not be able to do that for long. So here is where you make one source material that will ease your memory after applying the principles of repetition and all the rest.

09/06/2024

Studying is a step further in your reading. Here you are orgasnising the information given and extending it to know more than has been given. Say after the lecture, for instance, you want to put the information in a more accessible format for yourself, as well as consult your texts and recommended sources. This stage is more like a research phase in your study. The skills you need to consolidate what you get from this stage with the original lecture material are what I have called study skills including note-making and summary, then Mnemonics and Acronyms for the last-revision stage.