-
Join 35,693 other subscribers
Follow me on Twitter
My Tweetspatter on facebook
-
Recent Posts
- Story structure 2 – research writing
- Story and research writing
- when your writing plan gets stuck
- Planning and writing
- the planning fallacy and the PhD
- five discussion chapter challenges
- making the case for your research
- useless ideas
- academic writing as conversation
- AI and all that jazz
- thinking about collaborations
- a note on acronyms
Copyright
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.SEE MY CURATED POSTS ON WAKELET
LOOKING FOR POSTS ON WRITING FOR JOURNALS? REVISING AND EDITING? GIVING FEEDBACK AND REVIEWING? READING? GIVING A CONFERENCE PAPER? VISIT MY WAKES ON https://wakelet.com/@patter- abstracts academic blogging academic book academic writing acwrimo argument authority in writing blogging blogging about blogging books book writing chapter co-writing conclusion conference conference papers conference presentation contribution data data analysis doctoral research early career researchers editing examiner introduction journal journal article literature mapping literature review literature reviews literature themes methods chapter peer review PhD planning publishing reader reading research research methods revision revision strategy starting the PhD supervision Tate Summer School theory thesis time Uncategorized voice
Top Posts & Pages
- aims and objectives - what's the difference?
- Story and research writing
- writing a bio-note
- five ways to structure a literature review
- Story structure 2 - research writing
- the personal narrative in the thesis introduction
- making your writing authoritative – a citation revision strategy
- writing the thesis – the theoretical framework
- tiny texts - small is powerful
- I can't find anything written on my topic... really?
Meta
Tag Archives: show and tell
“showing” and “telling” in the thesis
The thesis must show and tell your examiner that its writer is ready to be called Dr. Yep. Dr (insert your surname here.) What do I mean by show and tell? Well, even if these are not the usual definitions, … Continue reading
Posted in academic writing, audit trail, conclusion, introduction, literature reviews, methods, show and tell, thesis
Tagged academic writing, audit trail, conclusion, introduction, literature, methods, show and tell, thesis
1 Comment
on form and function – and Les Back’s Academic Diary
So you want to write a book which examines everyday life in the contemporary university. You want to show the ways in which academic work is constrained, but also what freedoms are still possible. You want to communicate the reasons … Continue reading
Posted in Academic Diary
Tagged Academic Diary, form and function, genre, Les Back, show and tell
2 Comments
your academic writing is “slow” – some thoughts on pace
Last week I happened across a facebook post which went a little like this. “My supervisor has just told me my literature chapter was slow and tortuous. What do I do?” This feedback is a pretty clear example of a … Continue reading
Posted in academic writing, literature review
Tagged literature chapter, Pat Thomson, sentence length, show and tell, writing pace
21 Comments