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make a poster – it may also help you write a paper
Academic posters. They are a thing. You can find academic posters at a lot of conferences. Ah, conferences. Remember when we had face to face conferences? Oh, that seems like a long time ago now – but when we had … Continue reading
Posted in academic writing, conference papers, drafting, poster
Tagged academic poster, academic writing, conference paper, drafting, journal article, Pat Thomson
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working up a first draft: a twelve step strategy
If you are drafting, it is pretty easy to find a lot of advice about the benefits of free writing. Lots of people find that timed writing sprints help to generate content. Unstructured writing is useful to work out what … Continue reading
a planner’s approach to the first draft
Writing a draft. Mmm. The word ‘writing’ suggests that all you have to do is sit down and type or scribble away. And lo and behold a text is born. But there are different pathways to writing a draft. Some … Continue reading
Posted in academic writing, free-writing, looping, planning, planning a paper, poster, powerpoint, storyboard, storyboarding, Tiny Text, titles
Tagged academic writing, drafting, Pat Thomson, planning a text
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the writer’s tic – it’s all about the invisible gorilla
Lots of us have writing tics. A writing tic is involuntary, something we do without thinking. Many of us get a writing tic or two when producing a first draft. But we only find this out afterwards, when we read through what … Continue reading
Posted in drafting, invisible gorilla, revision, selective attention, writing tic
Tagged drafting, invisible gorilla, revision, selective attention, writer's tic
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a drafting strategy
I’m not a should-must-always person when it comes to academic writing. I think there are lots of ways to get scholarly authoring done and there are lots of ways for it to look and read. I always feel pretty uncomfortable … Continue reading
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Tagged academic writing, drafting, revision, write for publication, write for the reader, write for the writer
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good academic writing – it’s about revision not editing
Creative writers are accustomed to the idea that their writing must go through several drafts. However, much of the advice on offer to academic writers proceeds as if all they have to do is produce a draft which is then … Continue reading
Posted in Ann Lamott, early onset satisfaction, editing, revision
Tagged Ann Lamott, drafting, editing, Pat Thomson, revising
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