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writing from the PhD thesis: letting go

Posted on September 3, 2012 by pat thomson

I often meet post PhD people who are stuck. Even though they are now doctored, they are not over the Big Book. Some of them are stuck in thinking how they might get something, anything, out of the thesis. A … Continue reading →

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can you write about mess in your thesis and if so how? part two

Posted on July 16, 2012 by pat thomson

Peter Matthews continues his post about writing about the messy bits of his research. In my previous post I reported the “positive story” of my fieldwork – reflecting on that feeling of “connection” with my research participants in the narrative … Continue reading →