-
Join 12.9K other subscribers
patter on facebook
-
Recent Posts
- your conference paper – already published or work in progress?
- a musing on email signatures
- creativity and giving up on knowing it all
- white ants and research education
- Anticipation
- research as creative practice – possibility thinking
- research as – is – creative practice
- On MAL-attribution
- a brief word on academic mobility
- Key word – claim
- key words – contribution
- research key words – significance
Copyright
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
SEE MY CURATED POSTS ON WAKELET
LOOKING FOR POSTS ON WRITING FOR JOURNALS? REVISING AND EDITING? GIVING FEEDBACK AND REVIEWING? READING? GIVING A CONFERENCE PAPER? VISIT MY WAKES ON https://wakelet.com/@patter- abstracts academic blogging academic book academic writing acwrimo argument authority in writing blogging blogging about blogging books book writing chapter co-writing conclusion conference conference papers conference presentation contribution data data analysis doctoral research early career researchers editing examiner introduction journal journal article literature mapping literature review literature reviews literature themes methods chapter peer review PhD planning publishing reader reading research research methods revision revision strategy starting the PhD supervision Tate Summer School theory thesis time Uncategorized voice
Top Posts & Pages
- aims and objectives - what's the difference?
- writing a bio-note
- I can't find anything written on my topic... really?
- your conference paper - already published or work in progress?
- writing the thesis – the theoretical framework
- connecting chapters/chapter conclusions
- connecting chapters/chapter introductions
- five ways to structure a literature review
- headings and subheadings – it helps to be specific
- a musing on email signatures
Meta
Category Archives: words
how many words in a chapter – convention and purpose
The how-many-words-in-a-chapter question plagues book and thesis writers alike. When supervisors are asked about chapter word length, many of us hedge. It depends, we unhelpfully say, on how you have organised your results. The number of chapters and therefore words … Continue reading
Posted in chapter, length, word budget, word count, words
Tagged academic writing, chapter length, convention, Pat Thomson, purpose, word
2 Comments
useless ideas
Sometimes I read a something that resonates. It doesn’t necessarily have an immediate application. The something is not useful. It just speaks to me. And I want to write out the useless reading-thing. As a quote. So I don’t lose … Continue reading
Posted in field notes, notebook, words
Tagged academic writing, lexicon, notebook, Pat Thomson, text, words
5 Comments
choosing your words – starting the phd
Beginning academic writers often look for academic phrase banks and word lists to help them write ‘right’. The most popular of these is the Manchester Academic Phrase Bank – now also available in print. There are also general lists of … Continue reading
academic writers need a dictionary
When I began my PhD, my partner bought me a dictionary. A very big dictionary. I wasn’t quite sure that I needed it, since I was after all an English major and I read prolifically. However I did use it. … Continue reading
Posted in Access, Uncategorized, voice, words
4 Comments
what do words want?
In writing workshops I often come across people with conference and nearly final draft papers that they do not seem able to finish. The prospect of sending them out for review and possible publication just seems too hard, perhaps it’s … Continue reading
Posted in Margaret Atwood, reader, readership, reading, text, the page, words, writing
Tagged John Bunyan, Margaret Atwood, Pat Thomson, reader, words
1 Comment
patter 