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Category Archives: scan-reading
not reading everything
Last week was the first week of teaching. New class. New co-teacher. And for the third year running, the course has been redesigned. From a mix of online and face to face, to all on line, and now all face … Continue reading
Posted in literature mapping, literature reviews, reading, scan-reading
Tagged Literatures, Pat Thomson, reading, reading choices
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summer reading – or – not all reading is the same
Academics often look forward to doing their own work in summer – the work they can’t get to during term time. We write bids, papers and books during our <break>. And one of the ways we get ourselves into the … Continue reading
Posted in academic writing, Endnote, note-taking, reading, reading routine, scan-reading
Tagged note-taking, Pat Thomson, reading, reading routine
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literatures work – and a pair of new shoes…
It’s September and the Autumn equinox. To mark the occasion, I took my new pair of lace-up boots out of their box and gave them their first wearing/airing. Now anyone who knows me knows that I always have a pair … Continue reading
Posted in literature mapping, literature review, literature reviews, mapping, reading, scan-reading, scoping, Uncategorized
Tagged literatures work, mapping, noting, Pat Thomson, scoping
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beginning the literature review: the art of scan-reading
It’s important at the start of a piece of research to try to get a sense of the field – to establish the kinds of articles and books that are going to be useful. This is often a particularly hard … Continue reading
Posted in coherence, literature review, reading, scan-reading
Tagged coherence, literature review, Pat Thomson, reading, scan-reading
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