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Category Archives: chapter
writing the thesis – the theoretical framework
Please note that I write my blog on weekends. It is not part of my workload or job description. I support the #USSstrike and “teach out” online. Not every thesis has a section or chapter devoted to a theoretical framework. … Continue reading
Posted in academic writing, chapter, examiner, theory, theory chapter, thesis
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writing thesis chapters? beware ‘blocky’ writing
It’s very common to read academic texts, particularly thesis chapters, which present themselves to the reader as a series of blocks of stuff. Each big block of stuff may well be divided up into smaller sub-headed blocks. This is not … Continue reading
what’s the answer to “would you like to write for this book/journal”?
I was recently asked by an early career researcher whether it was better to say yes to an invitation to write a chapter for a book, or to say no and write a refereed journal article instead. It wasn’t just … Continue reading
Posted in academic writing, chapter, journal, journal provenance, time
Tagged book chapter, invitation to write, journal article, Pat Thomson
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chapter flow /using headings to help
This is the third in a series of posts on getting flow in the thesis. The first was on using the introduction and the second on using the conclusion. This post is about using headings. There are two aspects of … Continue reading
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Tagged chapter, flow, headings, Pat Thomson, Rachel Cayley, reverse outline, thesis
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connecting chapters/chapter conclusions
This post is the second of four which address the question of how you achieve flow across a thesis text. The previous post (here) offered a three-part approach to beginning to write a chapter. The three moves, link, focus and … Continue reading
Posted in chapter, conclusion, crunching, flow
Tagged chapter flow, crunching the conclusion, Pat Thomson
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connecting chapters/chapter introductions
Writing a thesis, or indeed an academic book, means constructing an extended argument. One common problem in writing a very long text is that it’s not hard in 80,000 to 100,000 words for the reader to get lost in between … Continue reading
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Tagged argument, chapter introduction, coherence, flow, Pat Thomson
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