Tag Archives: academic blogging

why do doctoral researchers blog?

Posted on December 10, 2015 by pat thomson

Today Inger Mewburn, Thesis Whisperer, and I presented the first cut from the survey we did – with your help – on PhD blogging. As yet, we don’t know whether we are going end up with a book chapter, or one or … Continue reading →

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blogging helps academic writing

Posted on December 7, 2015 by pat thomson

Why do academics blog? What do academic bloggers get from blogging? Discussions about scholarly blogging most often centre on the need for we academics to write in ways that attract new audiences. If we write blogs, we are told, we … Continue reading →

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where do blog ideas come from?

Posted on June 1, 2015 by pat thomson

People often ask me how I maintain a blog. How do I manage to write a post twice a week? On top of all of the other writing too… How exactly does it happen? My usual answer is that I’m … Continue reading →

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patter’s year

Posted on December 22, 2014 by pat thomson

Patter is about to have a little break from blogging. Not for long. Just a few days. Patter will be back in the New Year on Monday January 5th. In the last post for 2014 it’s time to have a … Continue reading →

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bourdieu and blogs (yes, really)

Posted on November 26, 2014 by pat thomson

Today I’ve been wondering about a field analysis, a la Bourdieu, of academic publishing. I dare say someone’s done this and it’s just one of the very many, many things that I haven’t caught up with. I’ve been thinking about … Continue reading →

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should doctoral researchers blog?

Posted on September 15, 2014 by pat thomson

I often get asked about the pros and cons of doctoral researchers blogging, and I know other colleagues do too. There isn’t a right or wrong answer to the question of course, it’s always an “It depends”. But here’s a … Continue reading →

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blogging – don’t lose control of your content

Posted on December 5, 2013 by pat thomson

In the last couple of weeks I’ve had cause to think about blogging – again. The paper that Inger Mewburn and I have recently published on ‘Why academics blog’ hasn’t quite gone viral, but it has generated a lot more … Continue reading →

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happy birthday to patter… a reflection on the last two years

Posted on July 11, 2013 by pat thomson

Today is patter’s birthday. Two years of mostly two posts a week adds up to 186 posts, 187 counting this one. Starting with 2,000 hits in its first month, patter now gets about 25,000 hits a month. And 187 posts, … Continue reading →

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a blogging ‘identity’

Posted on January 21, 2013 by pat thomson

I erased a post this morning, for the first time. I didn’t get rid of it altogether, because it’s OK. I just removed it from the schedule and saved it. I took it out of this blog because I realized … Continue reading →

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finding the time to blog

Posted on December 5, 2012 by pat thomson

How do you get time to blog and tweet? This is a question I get asked a lot, as I’m sure other academic bloggers do too. The question is often accompanied by some kind of unspoken criticism. It’s as if … Continue reading →

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