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Category Archives: creative writing
refresh your writing ideas
Reading is key to developing your understandings of what makes good academic writing. Anthropologist Ruth Behar (2020) suggests that academic writers shouldn’t stop at the classic texts in their discipline, but also read other genres. She says We need to read poetry … Continue reading
Posted in creative writing, reading, refreshing
Tagged creative strategies, Pat Thomson, reading, refreshing academic writing
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three thesis writing modes
It’s pretty common to hear academic writing described in three stages – (1) thinking and preparation or pre-writing, (2) writing, and (3) post writing revision. In the doctorate you do pre-writing until you get to ‘writing up’. And that’s when … Continue reading
creative re-vision
If you have a writing practice which begins with a quickly written and almost inevitably loose first draft, then you need a range of strategies that you can call on to beat the text into shape. And even if … Continue reading
Posted in creative writing, play, revision, revision strategy, Uncategorized
Tagged creative revision strategies, Kristen Iversen, Pat Thomson, revision
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use a vignette – #wakeupreader
Most readers, even academic ones, like a bit of a story. And a vignette is just a bit of a story, a condensed version. A vignette is brief, evocative and descriptive. It provides information about key points of an event … Continue reading
Posted in #wakeupreader, creative writing, introduction, narrative, Uncategorized, vignette
Tagged #wakeupreader, introduction, Pat Thomson, report, story, vignette
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creativity and academic writing – an oxymoron?
I’ve been pondering the question of creativity in academic writing. One of my research interests is creative pedagogies, including but by no means exclusively in the arts. I’ve been thinking that I ought to say more about creativity in relation … Continue reading
Posted in academic blogging, academic book, academic writing, creative writing, Uncategorized
Tagged academic writing, creativity, James Clifford, Jones, Kip, Les Back, Pat Thomson
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read what you want to write
One of the common pieces of advice given to creative writers is to read widely, work out what you like and then write like those you admire. This writing-like-admirable-others requires the aspiring creative writer to analyse various aspects of the … Continue reading
Posted in academic writing, conversation, creative writing, debates in the field, disciplines, doctoral education
Tagged academic writing, debates, genre, Pat Thomson, style
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dealing with negative f2f feedback
So you’ve sent the chapter to your supervisor and now you have to go and see what they think. You’re pretty pleased with what you’ve done, but when the conversation starts it goes almost immediately to the problems. You want … Continue reading
Posted in academic writing, creative writing, feedback
Tagged academic writing, creative writing, f2f feedback, Joni Cole
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holiday question 1: Why are there so few Academic Writing courses?
This is a guest post from Julia Molinari from the School of Education, The University of Nottingham. Julia is currently doing doctoral research into ‘academic writing’. A range of motivations, both personal and professional, have triggered the following observations, and … Continue reading
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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