Category Archives: word budget

academic writing – from Tiny Text to road map

Posted on September 19, 2022 by pat thomson

But wait ! There’s more. In the last post I showed the usual way I develop a piece of writing from tables through graphic design to a Tiny Text. This post completes the picture. Here I’m using a Tiny Text as … Continue reading →

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co-writing the messy first draft

Posted on June 19, 2014 by pat thomson

another of those posts where I talk about my own practice… I’m currently engaged in several bits of co-writing. They are not the talk-and-write-together model that I do with Barbara. No, these are variations on the write-together-write-separate process. Because this … Continue reading →

Posted in abstracts, co-writing, planning, planning a paper, word budget | Tagged abstract, co-writing, Pat Thomson, planning, talking to write, writing together | 5 Comments

writing a journal article is managing a word budget – or not

Posted on April 11, 2013 by pat thomson

We’ve all heard about the importance of balancing the household budget and the horrors of what happens when you get into debt. No, I’m not going off on a political rant here, just trying to connect academic writing with the … Continue reading →