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Category Archives: revision
use a vignette – #wakeupreader
Most readers, even academic ones, like a bit of a story. And a vignette is just a bit of a story, a condensed version. A vignette is brief, evocative and descriptive. It provides information about key points of an event … Continue reading
Posted in #wakeupreader, creative writing, introduction, narrative, Uncategorized, vignette
Tagged #wakeupreader, introduction, Pat Thomson, report, story, vignette
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co-writing – strategies for working with other people’s words
There are various types of co-writing practices. Pretty well all of them involve you working on text that other people have written. This is a sensitive matter. Many people are anxious about their writing and do not enjoy the process … Continue reading
Posted in academic writing, co-writing, revision, revision strategy, Uncategorized, voice
Tagged academic writing, co-writing, Pat Thomson
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academic sentences -#wakeupreader
Academic sentences are often lengthy. They make a point and then add multiple caveats and embellishments. Some people think there is an ideal sentence length. I have read for instance that the ideal newspaper sentence is somewhere around twenty words. Perhaps a … Continue reading
Posted in #wakeupreader, rhythm, sentence length, syntax, Uncategorized
Tagged #wakeupreader, Pat Thomson, sentence length, syntax
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begin as you mean to go on #wakeupreader
Your average doctoral thesis is about the same length as a fat airport novel, but nowhere near as racy. We could/should ask whether a thesis ought to be as riveting as a whodunnit or chick lit. And we’d probably conclude that a … Continue reading
Posted in revision, revision strategy, sentence beginnings, Uncategorized
Tagged Pat Thomson, revision strategy, sentence beginnings
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new series -#wakeupreader
When my son was about ten years old we went on holiday to Perth. We didn’t fly, as many people do. We drove from Adelaide where we lived. That’s a distance of 2691.44 km, about twenty-four hours driving time. It takes … Continue reading
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Tagged #wakeupreader, academic writing, Pat Thomson, revision, thesis
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from PhD to book – or – on not writing under anaesthetic
Often dissertations sound like prose under general anaesthetic, working hard to separate the writer out from what he or she has written. That’s a quote from William Germano, writing in From dissertation to book. Germano’s metaphor points to a tendency … Continue reading
Posted in revision, thesis to book, Wiliiam Germano
Tagged Pat Thomson, revision, thesis to book, William Germano
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