Tag Archives: nominalisation

eight ways to write theory very badly

Posted on December 10, 2018 by pat thomson

If you want to be the person who makes their reader sigh and eventually give up when they get to your theoretical ‘bit’, here’s some non-fail writing strategies. Do these and I guarantee your reader will be enervated and/or exasperated: … Continue reading →

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holiday question 2: Why do we make researching into nouns?

Posted on December 23, 2013 by pat thomson

Every now and then I wonder why it is that we talk about research processes as things. Our research uses interviews, not we interview. Or we opt for surveys rather than we survey. Or there are focus groups, rather than … Continue reading →