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Category Archives: revision strategy
propositional density – a helpful steer on writing and revising
Yes, it’s another post on terminology, on naming. Being able to give something a name is important – a name is shorthand for a lot of information. When we name something we can then discuss it, and this is of … Continue reading
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check for the passive voice
Passive voice. Put simply, the active voice is when the actor, the person doing the action, is named. The writer does not name the actor when using passive voice. Ironically, the first sentence above does not name the actor – … Continue reading
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Tagged communication, passive voice, Pat Thomson, revision, revision strategy
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the disappearing writer – a redrafting strategy
Academic writers often lose themselves when writing about literatures. It is easier to be textually confident when writing about what you did yourself than to summarise, synthesise and assess other people’s texts. Particularly if those texts are produced by more … Continue reading
revising? start strategically
Whether you are revising your own writing or responding to reviewer feedback, you need to work out what to do. But you also need to work out where to start. You may have made a revising plan or written out … Continue reading
Posted in crappy first draft, peer review, revision, revision strategy
Tagged communication, Pat Thomson, revision, revision strategy
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revising? try a four step approach
Many people approach revising as if it is a single shot process. They tell themselves, “I’m just going to sit down now and revise my paper”. But revising and refining a text are not one activity, they are several. The … Continue reading
Posted in academic writing, communication, revision, revision strategy, supervision
Tagged communication, Pat Thomson, revision, revision strategy, supervision
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revision – the “make it better” exercise
Occasionally I offer strategies that you can try to see if they work for you. If they do, and not everything works for everybody, then you can add them to your academic writing repertoire. Today I’ve got an exercise designed … Continue reading
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revising – nine steps for making meaning
In 1973 the late Donald Murray published an essay in The Writer in which he argues that writing begins when the first draft is completed. From then on, he says, the writer revises, reads and changes their words, closing in … Continue reading
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Tagged Donald Murray, Pat Thomson, revision, revision strategy, writing as making
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making your writing authoritative – a citation revision strategy
Readers expect academic writers to know what they are talking about. We meet that expectation by grounding our writing in good scholarship – and making it sound authoritative. Authoritative. You can see the words author and authority contained within authoritative … Continue reading
a very neat hack to avoid repetition and duplication
Do you repeat yourself? Most of us do. It’s not unusual. Repetitive writing takes many forms – several sentences that say the same thing using different words, a word or phrase used over and over, paragraphs and sentences that have … Continue reading
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Tagged concision, duplication, Pat Thomson, repetition, revision
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editing your writing – lessons from chefs?
You can pick up helpful ideas from the most unlikely places. Like cooking shows. Yes I watch cooking shows, it’s one of my guilty pleasures. I’m sure I’m not the only one, given their popularity. Sometimes they offer more than … Continue reading
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Tagged citations, editing, Pat Thomson, references, revision
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