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When I started my Master's in history, I had no idea what a "real" research paper looked like. Like, I knew the format—abstract, intro, lit review, etc.—but I didn't know what good actually looked like. My professor finally took pity on me and sent me some examples, and honestly, they taught me...

I know what you're thinking. Twitter? For research? Isn't that just for arguments and cat videos? That's what I thought too. But I'm a second-year Master's student, and for my latest research paper, I accidentally discovered that Academic Twitter is a real thing and it's actually... helpful...

I'm writing a research paper on political polarization, and I kept getting tangled up in definitions. What do I mean by "polarization"? Ideological? Affective? Elite? Mass? The words all sound similar but mean different things. My arguments were getting muddy because I was using terms...