{"id":200,"date":"2009-09-11T10:06:44","date_gmt":"2009-09-11T10:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/examplesofpersonalstatements.com\/?p=200"},"modified":"2015-09-18T07:53:25","modified_gmt":"2015-09-18T07:53:25","slug":"review-of-academic-productivity-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/examplesofpersonalstatements.com\/index.php\/2009\/09\/11\/review-of-academic-productivity-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Review of Academic Productivity blog"},"content":{"rendered":"

Academic Productivity\u00a0<\/strong>is a blog that focuses on various topics and categories on the production, acquisition, and dissemination of knowledge.\u00a0 Aside from topics related to academic knowledge, the blog also contains content on new technologies and various productivity strategies.\u00a0 The site is aimed at providing tips, advice, and general information to the modern-day researcher.\u00a0 Academic Productivity features articles like \u201cBenjamin Franklin: the grandfather of personal productivity?\u201c, which discusses Franklin\u2019s autobiography in relation to his study and research habits, and his general disposition toward productivity.<\/p>\n

A fresh twist on an age-old concept<\/strong><\/p>\n

What I like most about Academic Productivity is the fact that it has a rather unique perspective.\u00a0 Although there are loads of self-help and productivity blogs out there, few of them take on the same angle as Academic Productivity.\u00a0 The age-old concepts of academics and productivity have been discussed, debated over, and philosophized ever since the earliest civilizations.\u00a0 Academic Productivity, however, has the unique edge of catering to 21st century scholars, researchers, and practically anyone else who likes reading about such topics.\u00a0 This perspective makes the blog much more appealing for younger generations of researchers, much like the blog authors themselves.<\/p>\n

A few qualms<\/strong><\/p>\n

My main problem with Academic Productivity is the overall design and layout of the blog.\u00a0 At first sight, the blog isn\u2019t exactly what I would describe as \u201ca sight for sore eyes.\u201d In fact, there may just be one eye sore too many on the site.\u00a0 Here are some of the eye sores that need some fixing:<\/p>\n

–\u00a0 The long list of tags and categories along the margin makes the site seem as though it was designed with a tacky-looking template.\u00a0 Customizing the look of the blog into a more sleek, easily navigable, and less-cluttered layout would do wonders to improve the visual appeal and the overall feel of the site.\u00a0 Considering the site is made for scholars and researchers, it would be nice to have a layout that is neat, makes sense, and is intuitive \u2014 much like the way researchers would organize their notes.<\/p>\n

–\u00a0 Another problem that I find with Academic Productivity is that the list of topics seems to be too wide and varied.\u00a0 Although it is nice to have so many topics to look up and read about on the blog, it would help if the blog focused on fewer topics and categories that are better-geared towards the target audience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Academic Productivity\u00a0is a blog that focuses on various topics and categories on the production, acquisition, and dissemination of knowledge.\u00a0 Aside from topics related to academic knowledge, the blog also contains content on new technologies and various productivity strategies.\u00a0 The site is aimed at providing tips, advice, and general information to the modern-day researcher.\u00a0 Academic Productivity […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-blog-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/examplesofpersonalstatements.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/examplesofpersonalstatements.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/examplesofpersonalstatements.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/examplesofpersonalstatements.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/examplesofpersonalstatements.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/examplesofpersonalstatements.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201,"href":"https:\/\/examplesofpersonalstatements.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions\/201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/examplesofpersonalstatements.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/examplesofpersonalstatements.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/examplesofpersonalstatements.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}