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Category Archives: word budget
academic writing – from Tiny Text to road map
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
Posted in outline, Tiny Text, word budget
Tagged diary writing time, outline, Pat Thomson, Tiny Text, wordbidget
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co-writing the messy first draft
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
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writing a journal article is managing a word budget – or not
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
Posted in academic writing, balance, journal, word budget
Tagged balance, journal article, Pat Thomson, word budget
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