Follow me on Twitter
My Tweetspatter on facebook
-
Recent Posts
- I’m writing a journal article – what literatures do I choose?
- academic writing is visual
- getting to grips with new literatures
- tracking the path to research claims
- 2019 was…
- a festive gift from patter – a checklist for revising methods chapters
- writing a second edition is much harder than I realised
- keeping up with the literatures – preliminary sorting is key
- blog as teach-in/teach-out
- what is meta-text?
- planning a paper
- peer support for you and your PhD
Copyright
Patter by Pat Thomson is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at Patricia.Thomson@nottingham.ac.uk.SEE MY CURATED POSTS ON WAKELET
LOOKING FOR POSTS ON WRITING FOR JOURNALS? REVISING AND EDITING? GIVING FEEDBACK AND REVIEWING? READING? GIVING A CONFERENCE PAPER? VISIT MY WAKES ON https://wakelet.com/@patter- abstracts academic blogging academic book academic writing argument authority in writing blogging books book writing chapter co-writing conclusion conference conference papers conference presentation contribution crafting writing data doctoral research early career researchers editing ethics examiner feedback introduction journal journal article literature mapping literature review literature reviews methods chapter peer review PhD public engagement publishing reader reading research research methods research project revision revision strategy supervision Tate Summer School theory thesis time Uncategorized voice writing
Top Posts & Pages
- I'm writing a journal article - what literatures do I choose?
- aims and objectives - what's the difference?
- I can't find anything written on my topic... really?
- concluding the journal article
- bad research questions
- finishing the phd - write a Tiny Text
- story-boarding the thesis structure
- writing the introduction to a journal article
- thesis knowhow – “the contribution” can create coherence
- writing a bio-note
Meta
Category Archives: examination criteria
the audit trail – a common omission from methods chapters
It’s really important to put an ‘audit trail’ into your methods chapter. Audit trail? Well, it doesn’t actually matter what you call it, it’s the section in the chapter where you give the examiner the nuts and bolts information about … Continue reading
Posted in evidence, examination criteria, examiner, methodology, methods chapter
Tagged audit trail, methods chapter, Pat Thomson
14 Comments
how long will my viva be?
This is a guest post from Dr Paul Spencer. Paul is a Researcher Development Manager at the University of the West of England, Bristol (UWE). His own successful PhD viva in oral microbiology took a shade over 4 hours! So … Continue reading
Posted in doctoral award, doctorateness, examination criteria, examiner, viva
Tagged doctorateness, examination, Paul Spencer, viva
5 Comments
