Words, Ideas, and Optimal Knowledge-Building: A ‘foolproof’ self-help guide to academic (and other) thinking, writing, and problem-solving inquiry (2026)
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SUBJECTS 1. The modern research university, 2. The ‘publish or perish’ syndrome’, 3. Research-based academic writing, 4. critical thinking and academic problem-solving inquiry, 5. Postgraduate research 6. Sustainable university capacity-building. 7 The university as an institution of higher learning 8. Higher education internationalisation, 9. Academic English
OVERVIEW :
CONTENTS:
1. Introduction. Rethinking the University: From ‘publish or perish’ to ‘optimal knowledge-building’ [1-13]
Part A. Words, ideas, and optimal-knowledge-building
2. Word, Ideas, and optimal-knowledge-building as ‘deep learning’: Elements of an emerging ‘foolproof approach’ to academic writing and research inquiry (etc.) [17-74]
Part B. A ‘foolproof’ self-help guide to remedying the four ways and stages in which inexperienced academic researchers and (other) writers so often ‘get lost’
3. The ‘headless chicken PhD’? The related four key ways and stages that postgraduates (and others) ‘get lost’ in the research-based academic writing process [77-84]
4. The relevance of the emergent method of academic writing for knowledge-building [85-104]
5. The ‘foolproof’ approach as an antidote for the four key symptoms of a ‘lost PhD’ [105-125]
Part C. Related essays
6. Towards a more sustainable model of both academic capacity-building and organizational change in higher education [129-139]
7. Re-framing Academic English? The teaching and learning of academic writing in ESL and intercultural as well as native speaker contexts [141-157
8. The still important role of the ‘humanities’(also) in the future Asian Pacific university [159-172]
9. Sustainable policy building for 21st Century problem-solving: Innovative design solutions to the acceleration of policy research challenges [173-191]
10. University commercialization/privatization, marketisation, and internationalization: Singaporean vs. Malaysian models of higher education hub policy? [193-206]
Part D. Example of a PhD design using the ‘foolproof’ approach and related emergent methods
11. The challenge of refining WTO e-commerce policies to be more relevant to emerging economies (a ‘supervisory collaboration’ with Farrokh Farroknia) [209-215]
12. ‘Optimal grounded theory’? Words, ideas, and optimal policy-building using an adapted version of grounded theory [217-229]
References [231-237]