Tag Archives: Barbara Kamler

why​ is writing a literature review such hard work? part two

Posted on July 2, 2018 by pat thomson

Yes, some examiners do ask doctoral researchers to change their literature review to show how they are “located” in the text. OK, let’s pretend this is you. What do those pesky examiners mean exactly? At one level this is a … Continue reading →

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choose your writing partner carefully

Posted on March 3, 2016 by pat thomson

We hear a lot about the benefits of collaboration in writing. I’m always banging on about how good it is to have regular writing partners. But not all collaborations work out well. Things can go wrong. People don’t pull their weight. People don’t … Continue reading →

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paper, thesis and book titles – think ‘key words’ and ‘the point’

Posted on February 18, 2016 by pat thomson

We all know that it is now more important than ever to have searchable paper, (digital) thesis and book titles. So, as well as the key word list, titles need to use the kinds of words that will show up … Continue reading →

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the proofreading – book update

Posted on December 21, 2015 by pat thomson

Barbara and I have just finished the first round of fine-grained proofing on the type-set version of our new “Detox your writing” book. Because we’ve done this proofing lark three times before, we now have a set routine. We first work … Continue reading →

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text work/identity work

Posted on September 9, 2015 by pat thomson

When we write we not only produce text, we also produce ourselves as scholars. As we make textual decisions – what to write about, who to cite and who to leave out, what evidence to include, how we use language … Continue reading →

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book blog – our endgame revision and proofing

Posted on June 11, 2015 by pat thomson

Barbara and I are now on final descent with our new writing book, Detox your writing. We’ll have it to the publisher sometime next week. Yippee. Our process of final revision and proof-reading has been in several stages. About three … Continue reading →

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writing course: The Literatures

Posted on February 4, 2015 by pat thomson

So next to The Literatures. Literatures, a broad term covering anything from the scholarly works to popular texts, social and print media and policy texts. But always including the scholarly materials relevant to the research being reported in the paper. … Continue reading →

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book blogging – beginning revision

Posted on January 15, 2015 by pat thomson

Barbara and I finished a messy first draft of our new book at the end of November. We are back at it again, this time at a distance from each other. No longer sitting side-by-side, one talking while the other … Continue reading →

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book blogging – it’s done but not dusted

Posted on November 24, 2014 by pat thomson

We’ve played The Hallelujah Chorus. We’ve bounced around to Bowie’s Let’s dance. We’ve shouted Ole and Hooray several times. Yes, we’ve finished a first draft. We have 80,000 words or so – 60,000 of which were written in the last … Continue reading →

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book blogging – managing tiredness

Posted on November 21, 2014 by pat thomson

We’ve now recognised a pattern in this two-days per chapter fast-writing business. The first day is harder than the second. That’s because on the first day we have to work out how to rhetorically frame the chapter and the order that … Continue reading →

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