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Category Archives: authorship
meeting your readers’ expectations – a revision strategy
There are multiple ways to revise a paper. If you’re revising, you’ll find a load of strategies on this blog, just search using the key word revision. While none of these is The One Way to sort out your writing, … Continue reading
Posted in authorship, reader, readers, readership, revision, revision strategy
Tagged academic writing, Pat Thomson, reader expectations, readers, revision
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me, myself and I
Sherry Turkle wrote the words – Who am we – in 1996. She described how one person and their various persona were distributed across multiple platforms. She talked about ‘distributed’ knowing and knowledge production. Hold onto that idea of distribution. It’s … Continue reading
Posted in academic writing, authorship, bid writing, home page, individualism, self promotion
Tagged author, individualism, Pat Thomson, promotion, research bid, team
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writing more than one thing at the same time – part two, authoring
There are good reasons for writing alongside the thesis. Besides contributing to the work (see first post) and your cv, there are authoring benefits. These include: the chance to learn more about academic writing the opportunity to develop a scholarly … Continue reading
you don’t own me- authorship and other problems
A guest post from Megan, Maximum and Dulcie McPherson. Megan, a practising artist, has just completed her PhD – yay and congratulations – and is looking for work in Melbourne and beyond. During the week I was approached by a … Continue reading
Posted in academic writing, authorship, early career researchers
Tagged authorship, early career researcher, Megan McPherson
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co-writing with your supervisor – do we need a code of good practice?
Yes, universities now promote the practice of doctoral researchers writing with their supervisors, but their advice and support for those involved lags well behind their encouragement. Most universities sign on to the Vancouver protocol, developed by medical researchers, which clarifies … Continue reading
Posted in academic writing, author order, authors, authorship, co-writing, ICJMA, publishing, supervision, Uncategorized
Tagged authorship, ICMJA, Pat Thomson, VITAE, writing with your supervisor
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co–writing with your supervisor – the authorship question
A doctoral researcher recently told me, and several others who were in the room at the same time, that he wanted to write a journal article. Good eh. No. Not really. The trouble was that his supervisor insisted on being … Continue reading
Posted in authorship, co-writing, supervisor, Uncategorized
Tagged academic writing, co-writing, Pat Thomson, supervision, writing with your supervisor
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academic writing voice …. and voices in your head…
I’ve just been to a summer festival. It was a picture perfect weekend. The weather was hot. While it was humid, it wasn’t so sticky that it brought the mosquitoes out. There was no need for wellies, the ground was … Continue reading
Posted in academic writing, authorship, voice
Tagged academic writing voice, Hanif Kureishi, Pat Thomson, Rachel Cooke
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why write book chapters
I like writing book chapters. If you look at my publications – well I don’t mean you to do this literally – but IF you did, you’d see that I’ve written quite a lot of them. In the last month … Continue reading
Posted in academic writing, authorship, chapter, creative writing
Tagged authoring, book chapter, creativity, Pat Thomson
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research collaboration – do we need research pre-nups?
I’ve recently heard some stories about research collaborations that have gone wrong. I can’t give away too many details, but suffice it to say that at least some of the difficulty appeared to be caused by conflicting expectations and miscommunications. … Continue reading
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