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Category Archives: abstracts
tiny texts – small is powerful
I work a lot with tiny texts. Abstracts. Storyboards. Story threads. Lines of argument. Tiny texts are my academic writing tool of choice. If I had to abandon all the other writing strategies I have in my repertoire, this is … Continue reading
Posted in abstracts, academic writing, methods, methods chapter, research methods, thesis, Tiny Text
Tagged abstratc, argument, methods chapter, Pat Thomson, thesis, Tiny Text
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finishing the phd – write a Tiny Text
You’ve finally finished your data generation and analysis. What next? Oh, it’s the big text… but working out how to move now, working out how to structure the thesis … well it can feel a bit like trying to fight your … Continue reading
confessions of a crabby conference abstract reviewer
Jonathan Downie is a conference interpreter, researcher and writer based in Edinburgh, Scotland. His PhD was at Heriot-Watt University and examined stakeholder expectations of interpreters. He recently passed his viva. He tweets as @jonathanddownie. Dear Person Who Wrote This Abstract, I know … Continue reading
buffering your thesis
I’m sure I’m not the only one who finds it excruciatingly irritating to be in the middle of streaming a video or music and the computer stops and spins its little wheel while it downloads more data. Download download, sigh. And it always happens during the … Continue reading
Posted in abstracts, buffering the thesis, Dave McKenna, storyboarding, thesis
Tagged buffering the thesis, Dave McKenna, Pat Thomson, storyboarding
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co-writing the messy first draft
another of those posts where I talk about my own practice… I’m currently engaged in several bits of co-writing. They are not the talk-and-write-together model that I do with Barbara. No, these are variations on the write-together-write-separate process. Because this … Continue reading
Posted in abstracts, co-writing, planning, planning a paper, word budget
Tagged abstract, co-writing, Pat Thomson, planning, talking to write, writing together
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writing the thesis abstract
The thesis abstract is the first thing that your examiner reads. It sets the tone of what is to come. On the basis of the abstract alone, before they start the text proper, the examiner will form some expectations about … Continue reading
Posted in abstracts, examiner, reader, thesis abstract
Tagged examiner, Pat Thomson, reader, thesis abstract
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the appraisal and rejection of conference abstracts
I had an email recently from an early career researcher who’d just had an abstract for a conference knocked back. When they asked for feedback, they were shocked by what they read. Presumably assuming that the writer would never see … Continue reading
Posted in abstracts, conference papers, early career researchers, peer review, rejection, reviewing
Tagged conference abstract, Pat Thomson, rejection, reviewing
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writing course day two
We began today by looking at the abstract again – the Tiny Text – and then went on to think about titles. After some paired discussion of the potential titles and a bit of work on some volunteers’ abstracts and … Continue reading
Posted in abstracts, introduction, Tiny Text, writing course
Tagged abstract, beginning work, Pat Thomson, Tiny Text, writing course
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day one writing course
My intention in these posts is simply to outline the activities in the course in case you want to try any of them for yourself. If I have time/energy I’ll add other bits too, but tonight is quite late and … Continue reading
Posted in abstracts, journal, just write
Tagged journal choice, Pat Thomson, structured abstract, writing course
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I’m running a writing course…
This afternoon I head off to Iceland to run a short writing course. I’ve decided that I’m going to blog about it as it happens. So rather than there being two posts this week, there will in fact be five … Continue reading
