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Category Archives: disciplines
when peer review is scent marking
Continuing random posts on peer reviewer behaviour… So we all know what scent marking is. It’s when animals set out the boundaries of their territory by leaving their scent in strategic places. Scentmarked territories are often used for sleeping and/or mating … Continue reading
Posted in disciplines, journal article, peer review, subfield, territoriality, Uncategorized
Tagged journal article, Pat Thomson, peer review, territoriality
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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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literature review step one, scoping. #acwrimo work in progress
One of the things that we all have to do when starting a piece of research is to find out what else has been said about our topic. This is usually called the literature review, although I prefer to think … Continue reading
Posted in academic blogging, disciplines, journal, literature review, scoping, search
Tagged academic blogging, journals, literature review, Pat Thomson, scoping, search, Thesis Whisperer
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