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creative re-vision
If you have a writing practice which begins with a quickly written and almost inevitably loose first draft, then you need a range of strategies that you can call on to beat the text into shape. And even if … Continue reading
Posted in creative writing, play, revision, revision strategy, Uncategorized
Tagged creative revision strategies, Kristen Iversen, Pat Thomson, revision
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new series -#wakeupreader
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
Posted in #wakeupreader, academic writing
Tagged #wakeupreader, academic writing, Pat Thomson, revision, thesis
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from PhD to book – or – on not writing under anaesthetic
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
Posted in revision, thesis to book, Wiliiam Germano
Tagged Pat Thomson, revision, thesis to book, William Germano
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finishing the #PhD – restructuring moves for thesis drafts
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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Tagged finishing the PhD, Pat Thomson, restructuring the thesis, revision
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thesis to journal article -where’s the paper?
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
Posted in Big Book, journal article, thesis to papers
Tagged journal article, Pat Thomson, revision, thesis to papers
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sift and sort – a revision strategy for a problem paper
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
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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