Category Archives: stance

what is “measured” writing?

Posted on May 13, 2019 by pat thomson

I was recently part of a small discussion on another social media platform where someone reported that their supervisor had said their writing wasn’t sufficiently “measured’. Without seeing the actual work it was pretty hard to understand what the supervisor … Continue reading →

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addressing ‘the gap’ in the field

Posted on March 11, 2019 by pat thomson

One of the conventions of academic life is the work of justification. To justify. To say why we are going to do what we are going to do. We regularly have to justify why we want to research something and … Continue reading →