Tag Archives: revision

new series -#wakeupreader

Posted on February 27, 2017 by

When my son was about ten years old we went on holiday to Perth. We didn’t fly, as many people do. We drove from Adelaide where we lived. That’s a distance of 2691.44 km, about twenty-four hours driving time. It takes … Continue reading →

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from PhD to book – or – on not writing under anaesthetic

Posted on November 21, 2016 by

Often dissertations sound like prose under general anaesthetic, working hard to separate the writer out from what he or she has written. That’s a quote from William Germano, writing in From dissertation to book. Germano’s metaphor points to a tendency … Continue reading →

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finishing the #PhD – restructuring moves for thesis drafts

Posted on October 31, 2016 by

You’ve done your thesis plan. You’ve written for weeks. And weeks. But now, despite your very best planning,  you find yourself at a point where that carefully thought out thesis road map no longer seems to work. This apparent catastrophe … Continue reading →

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thesis to journal article -where’s the paper?

Posted on August 11, 2016 by

The thesis is done. Now you are expected to write some papers from your PhD. You may of course be able to write a book  from your PhD – but not everyone can or does. Everyone does however have some papers … Continue reading →

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sift and sort – a revision strategy for a problem paper

Posted on July 11, 2016 by

Those of you who like to work with material stuff, moving actual objects around, might want to try to this revision strategy. It’s not too dissimilar to the computer based version, but here you get to use paper and scissors. … Continue reading →

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the writer’s tic – it’s all about the invisible gorilla

Posted on June 23, 2016 by

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 →

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conference paper to journal article – understanding and using the difference

Posted on May 30, 2016 by

If you’re converting a conference paper to a journal article then you need to have a clear idea of exactly what needs to be done. You need to know the difference between the two types of papers. Now, there are … Continue reading →

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