Tag Archives: de Certeau

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 →

making time to not think

Posted on February 25, 2013 by pat thomson

Much advice on academic writing suggests the importance of routines – daily writing, finding a good place to work, working for a set period each day. The point of routines is to create a sense of writing as habituated, as … Continue reading →