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Category Archives: quotations
thesis know-how – let participants ‘speak for themselves’?
I was watching a long interview with Kazuo Ishiguro the other night – as you do if you live in the UK and still have some good (high) cultural television – and something he said leapt out at me. I … Continue reading
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academic writing and quotations
A guest post from Helen Colley from The University of Huddersfield. I just got an enquiry from a colleague about whether the university has guidelines for research theses in relation to formatting quotations, whether from the literature or primary data … Continue reading
quotations – handle with care
Quotations are dangerous. The way that you use quotations can give away whether you think you are still writing as a student, or writing as an expert scholar in your own right. Student assignments are often heavily strewn with quotations. … Continue reading
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Tagged Pat Thomson, quotation, writing with authority
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