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Category Archives: practice
grow your own writing practice
You often hear writing described as a skill. And a skill is the capacity to do something well, to use expertise built up through practice. Skills are often seen as merely technical, but a skill requires specialist knowledge and often … Continue reading
Posted in artisan, connoisseur, PhD, practice, reading, routine, starting the PhD
Tagged academic writing, artisan, coonoisseur, Pat Thomson, starting the PhD, writing skills
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why is academic writing so hard
Academic writing is a complex business. And it’s that complexity that makes it tricky. When you sit down to write a thesis, book or paper you start off with: material that comes from a well designed project a defensible analysis … Continue reading
Posted in academic writing, practice
Tagged academic writing, complexity, Pat Thomson, practice
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conclusions – practice getting to the point(s)
It’s coming to the end of the academic year in the northern hemisphere and lots of doctoral researchers are also coming to the end of their thesis writing. They are writing their conclusion and perhaps even thinking about what might … Continue reading
Posted in conclusion, practice, writing prompts
Tagged contribution, Pat Thomson, writing prompts. conclusion
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supervision as an ethic of care
I’ve been posting about how we learn to supervise. There have been three guest posts on the topic in addition to my own, and two of them – here and here – have focused on the pedagogic strategies used in … Continue reading
Posted in encounter, ethics of care, I-thou, Martin Buber, modeling, Nell Noddings, practice, supervision
Tagged care, ethical practice, Martin Buber, Nell Noddings, Pat Thomson, supervision
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academic writing – learning from practice
I’ve been thinking recently that one of the problems with writing is that, by and large, we can all do it – and we all DO do it. Being in a literate society means that writing is a bit like … Continue reading
