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Category Archives: IMRAD
the IMRaD structure is rarely enough
Imagine you’ve gone out to café and you ask for a salad. What arrives is a chopping board, a knife, a bowl, a lettuce, a tomato, a carrot, a bundle of random herbs, a mystery fruit and sundry bottles and jars. … Continue reading
Posted in argument, IMRAD, narrative, reader, story
Tagged academic writing, argument, paper, Pat Thomson, red thread, story, thesis
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There are no writing “rules”
Look. I don’t really want to start the new year off with a rant. But I just can’t sit on this any longer. I’m climbing onto my soap box now, taking up my megaphone and shouting. THERE ARE NO RULES FOR … Continue reading
Posted in conventions, IMRAD, journal article
Tagged academic writing, academic writing conventions, IMRAD, Pat Thomson
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Story structure 2 – research writing
How is writing research like story? Last post I wrote about Kurt Vonnegut’s man in hole structure and how that might help you think at a very macro level about how to organise your material. This post is also about … Continue reading
Posted in arts based research, IMRAD, narrative, story, storyboarding, structure
Tagged academic writing, C3REC, ERCR, IMRAD, Pat Thomson, story, Story structure, structure
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writing the thesis from the middle
This is a guest post from Dr Milena Popova, a rogue scholar and activist. They offer one-to-one academic tuition, and tweet as @elmyra. As I hit the start of the second year of my PhD, one of my supervisors casually … Continue reading
Posted in academic writing, IMRAD, thesis
Tagged academic writing, IMRAD, Maria Popova, thesis, writing from the middle
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on “other” academic writing
Academic writing is not all introduction, literature, methods, results, discussion. While this is the dominant mode of writing across the social sciences, and in other disciplines too, it is not all that there is. IMRAD, and the variations on it, is certainly … Continue reading
Posted in academic writing, ILMRaD, IMRAD
Tagged academic writing, alternative genres, IMRAD, Pat Thomson
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headings and subheadings – it helps to be specific
I’d rather not read generic headings. You know the ones I mean, they just say something vague like Introduction, or Methods, or Discussion, or Conclusion. Generic headings remind me of a cartoon I once saw where the heroine went eagerly … Continue reading
Posted in academic writing, generic headings, headings, IMRAD, sub-headings
Tagged academic writing, headings, IMRAD, Pat Thomson, sub-headings
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some more thoughts on structuring the thesis
A little while ago I was asked a tricky question about thesis chapter: How much should each thesis chapter stand-alone? On pursuing this a little, it turned out that there was more to the question. The questioner also wanted to … Continue reading →