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Category Archives: advice
writing advice – caveat emptor
Advice. Loads of it. Coming out of our ears. And on every possible topic, including research and writing. Advice needs readers. But we readers also need to be, as Ernest Hemingway put it, “crap detectors”. Howard Rheingold has worked up … Continue reading
Posted in academic writing, advice, crap detection, Howard Rheingold, poor advice
Tagged advice, crap detection, Howard Rheingold
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bad writing advice
There’s some very bad writing advice out there. Most of it is well-intentioned. Most doesn’t aim to make profit from anxious writers. But unfortunately readily available writing advice is not uniformly good. Does this matter? Caveat emptor perhaps? Well, there’s … Continue reading
Posted in academic writing, advice, poor advice, research, writing research
Tagged academic writing research, advice, Bad Ideas About Writing, Pat Thomson
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the limits of writing advice
There’s a lot of understanding now about writing. There didn’t used to be. But over the last couple of decades there’s been a lot more talk and writing about academic writing. I see a lot of writing advice around on social … Continue reading
poor writing advice
There is some very poor academic writing advice out there in the ether. And crappy academic writing advice drives me crackers. So, a health warning, this post is a bit of a rant. What do I mean by poor writing advice? Here’s some I … Continue reading
Posted in academic writing, advice, poor advice
Tagged Pat Thomson, poor academic writing advice
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have I got “advice” for you…
I want you to imagine that you are going to build a fence. You have a wide choice of potential materials and style. Well and good. But you haven’t build a fence before, so where do you go for some … Continue reading
Posted in academic writing, advice, crap detection
Tagged academic writing, advice, crap detection, doctoral education, Pat Thomson
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digital academic – new research project
Last week Inger Mewburn – @Thesiswhisperer – and I were at the Digital Academics seminar in Canberra. We presented some ideas for a research project we have been talking about. This was our handout to participants. We’d be interested in anything … Continue reading
Posted in advice, DIY PhD, Inger Mewburn
Tagged DIY PhD, Inger Mewburn, Pat Thomson, research project
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are we heading for a DIY PhD?
This is an op-ed piece I’ve recently written. It’s still in press but I thought I might give it a little pre-publication outing here. The DIY theme is one I’m doing more work on right now. In the humanities and … Continue reading
supervision and writing feedback/advice
One of the biggest problems that supervisors face, when dealing with the writing that doctoral researchers do, is how to be helpful. It’s often much easier to spot a problem than it is to know how to provide strategies that … Continue reading
Posted in academic writing, advice, Anthony Paré, feedback, supervision
Tagged academic writing, Pat Thomson, supervisor feedback
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giving background advice to mainstream media
There are multiple ways for researchers to engage with mainstream media. The roles we take can vary from giver of expert advice through to public commentator. But what we do might also vary according to the kind of media involved … Continue reading
Posted in advice, ethics, media, public engagement
Tagged ethics, media, media advice, Pat Thomson, pub lic engagement
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