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Tag Archives: academic writing
academic writing choices – learning from blogging
I’ve been thinking about academic writing and blogging again. I’ve been wondering what we might learn from thinking about the writing that bloggers do. Academic blogs are not all the same. They can be categorised in various ways. I’ve been … Continue reading
#AcWriMo2020 goals rebooted
At this past the middling point in #Acwrimo2020, it’s good to pause and think about what you have achieved so far. If you have managed to get some writing done most days, then it is worth giving yourself a metaphorical … Continue reading
Posted in acwrimo, Pat Thomson, targets
Tagged academic writing, AcWriMo2020, goals, Pat Thomson, targets
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seven prompts for writing with literatures – #startingthePhD
if you have just started your doctorate, then your supervisor has no doubt asked you to read, and read a lot. By now, you probably have quite a few texts entered in your bibliographic software. You can start to write … Continue reading
getting into writing – again
I usually don’t have a lot of trouble writing. I’m lucky I know, but my capacity to just get on with writing is also because I’ve got a lifetime writing habit. However, even the most hardy of habits can be … Continue reading
Posted in mental space, music, place, space, time
Tagged academic writing, headspace, Joanne HArris, mental space, music, Pat Thomson
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#litreview – getting to argument, part 2.
Writing about literatures doesn’t mean writing a summary of what you have read. You dont want a paragraph by paragraph laundry list of the texts you’ve been reading organised into a rough kind of order. Of course you write summaries … Continue reading
this, they, it, those, these – a revision strategy
One of my pet peeves is reading sentences which contain an ambiguous pronoun. The pronoun stands alone, isolated. The lonely goatherd on the hilltop. Sentences that start with, or contain, an unattached this, they, it, those, these seem to expect the reader … Continue reading
Posted in academic writing, grammar, revision, revision strategy, syntax, thesis revision, vagueness
Tagged academic writing, Pat Thomson, pronouns, revision, revision strategy, syntax, vagueness
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dogs and cats and rabbits and..
This week I’m working on book proofs. And right at the start, in “prelims”, I noticed an acknowledgement I’d made. I’d written: Charlie, our surly and eccentric elderly poodle, needed to be put outside at regular intervals; she ensured that … Continue reading
Posted in academic writing, dogs and cats
Tagged academic writing, dogs and cats, isolation, Pat Thomson
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writing home and away
I’m working away from my desk, as my out of office assistant puts it. But I’m still very much working. I’m writing out of place. I don’t have my usual working set up. And not just for a couple of … Continue reading
Posted in academic writing, academic writing as work, office, space, writing routine
Tagged academic writing, desktop, out of office, Pat Thomson, routine, space
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I’m writing a journal article – what literatures do I choose?
I’m often asked about the literatures sections of journal articles. Not your literatures based paper of course but your standard empirical paper. They only want a short section! I can’t cram everything I’ve read into a few paragraphs – how … Continue reading
academic writing is visual
Writing is a visual medium It may seem odd to say that writing is visual. Writing – and academic writing in particular – is about words and what they say isn’t it? Well of course it is. But the way … Continue reading
Posted in academic writing, font, layout, margins, text, visual
Tagged academic writing, font, layout, margins, space, text, visual
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