-
Join 35,470 other subscribers
Follow me on Twitter
My Tweetspatter on facebook
-
Recent Posts
- thinking about collaborations
- a note on acronyms
- using jargon
- line editing – learning from editors
- five focusing questions to kick off some writing
- revising – mark up your text to achieve focus
- cutting and pasting early text into the thesis – part 2.
- can you cut and paste early text into your thesis?
- developing a research agenda
- getting to grips with PSA – Pre Submission Angst
- writing on the fly
- on alt writing
Copyright
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
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 acwrimo argument authority in writing blogging blogging about blogging books book writing chapter co-writing conclusion conference conference papers conference presentation contribution data data analysis doctoral research early career researchers editing examiner feedback introduction journal journal article literature mapping literature review literature reviews literature themes methods chapter peer review PhD publishing reader reading research research methods revision revision strategy starting the PhD supervision Tate Summer School theory thesis time Uncategorized voice
Top Posts & Pages
- thinking about collaborations
- writing a bio-note
- aims and objectives - what's the difference?
- five focusing questions to kick off some writing
- use a structured abstract to help write and revise
- I can't find anything written on my topic... really?
- what's a #phd 'contribution'?
- 20 reading journal prompts
- connecting chapters/chapter introductions
- finishing the #PhD - restructuring moves for thesis drafts
Meta
Category Archives: first person writing
writing as ‘we’
Most people are pretty wary of writing as ‘we’. That’s probably because it sounds too much like the Royal plural. Only the Monarch talks of herself as more than a singular, right? And anyone else who does is just being … Continue reading
Posted in academic 'I', academic writing, first person writing, we
Tagged first person, Liz Bondi, Pat Thomson, writing as 'we'
6 Comments
writing with ‘I’ is subjective – and that’s OK
This is a response to the posts that have recently appeared on patter about writing in the first person (here and here). It comes from Alex Seal. Alex is a first year PhD student and graduate tutor at the University … Continue reading
Posted in academic 'I', academic writing, first person writing, subjectivity
Tagged Alex Seal, first person, Pat Thomson, subjectivity, writing as 'I'
15 Comments
Should I write as an ‘I’?
Is the use of ‘I’ acceptable practice in doctoral writing? I often get asked this question, as do most people who talk about writing. I’ve been asked this a lot again recently, so I thought it might be worth posting … Continue reading
Posted in feminism, first person writing, hedges, I, objectivity
Tagged autobiography, Donna Haraway, first person, objectivity, Pat Thomson
14 Comments
patter 