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all that reading? think of it as tracing your family tree
When you start on a PhD, or indeed on any new research project, there’s always a lot of reading to be done. It’s easy to lose track of what this reading is for and to forget why engaging with all … Continue reading →
Posted in family tree, George Patton, literature review, metaphor, reading
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Tagged family tree, literature review, metaphor, Pat Thomson, reading
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writing course: The Literatures
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 →
a methodological metaphor – what detective are you?
One of the basic requirements for research in the humanities and social sciences is that the researcher must take a position. Well not any old position, but one in relation to the practice of research. This is often thought of … Continue reading →
Posted in crime fiction, doctoral research, epistemology, evidence, metaphor, methods chapter, ontology, philosophy
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Tagged crime fiction, detective, metaphor, Pat Thomson, philosophy
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location – another metaphor for writing about your research
There are a lot of geographical metaphors used in research talk. We routinely speak about fields of study, mapping the literatures, surveying the literatures. Location is another one of those borrowed-from-geography metaphors and it’s one I‘m particularly fond of. Locating … Continue reading →
Posted in abstracts, academic writing, journal, literature review, location, metaphor, Tiny Text
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Tagged location, metaphor, Pat Thomson, Tiny Text
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a metaphor for the thesis
I like a good metaphor. I like thinking about the metaphors that we use to describe academic work too. I particularly like thinking about how changing metaphors can help re-orient the actual doing of academic work. We all know, I’m … Continue reading →
Posted in academic writing, bricolage, metaphor, text, thesis
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Tagged bricolage, metaphor, Pat Thomson, thesis
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finished your first draft? now it’s cut and come again
One of the crunch points for writers comes right after the first draft. It’s commonly understood that once the first draft is done what is needed is some editing. This is most usually thought of as minor rewriting and fiddling … Continue reading →
Posted in academic writing, editing, revision, rewriting, words, writing
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Tagged editing, metaphor, Norman Lindsay, Pat Thomson, revision, rewriting, The Magic Pudding
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