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revising – mark up your text to achieve focus
There’s so much to say about revising. Even though I’ve just published a book on revising – shameless plug – I still have things I want to say about it. The key message in the book is that revising effectively … Continue reading
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cutting and pasting early text into the thesis – part 2.
So you are writing your thesis about the research that you have done. And what you write now is is likely to be a little different from the expanded proposal you wrote to confirm your candidature. And a little different … Continue reading
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revising drafts – #AcWriMo
In the spirit of #AcWriMo here is another book that you might find interesting and helpful – this week it’s Verlyn Klinkinborg’s (2012) Several short sentences about writing. Klinkinborg writes a book-length prose poem about authoring. His goal is to … Continue reading
the disappearing writer – a redrafting strategy
Academic writers often lose themselves when writing about literatures. It is easier to be textually confident when writing about what you did yourself than to summarise, synthesise and assess other people’s texts. Particularly if those texts are produced by more … Continue reading
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
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