Tag Archives: supervision

revising? try a four step approach

Posted on November 1, 2021 by pat thomson

Many people approach revising as if it is a single shot process. They tell themselves, “I’m just going to sit down now and revise my paper”. But revising and refining a text are not one activity, they are several. The … Continue reading →

Posted in academic writing, communication, revision, revision strategy, supervision | Tagged communication, Pat Thomson, revision, revision strategy, supervision | 2 Comments

help your inner ‘Creator’ and ‘Editor’ get along

Posted on January 18, 2021 by pat thomson

You’re writing? And feeling a bit pulled in two directions at once? Perhaps that’s not surprising. Writers have two inter-related personae –the Creator and the Editor. Well, that’s according to Joni B Cole, and indeed a lot of other people … Continue reading →

Posted in Creator and Editor, feedback, inner editor, Joni Cole, revision | Tagged creative practice, Editor and CReator, feedback, inner editor, Joni Cole, revision, supervision | Leave a comment

what is “measured” writing?

Posted on May 13, 2019 by pat thomson

I was recently part of a small discussion on another social media platform where someone reported that their supervisor had said their writing wasn’t sufficiently “measured’. Without seeing the actual work it was pretty hard to understand what the supervisor … Continue reading →

Posted in academic writing, argument, boosters, disciplines, hedges, measured writing, nominalisation, passive voice, stance, thingification | Tagged academic writing, measured writing, Pat Thomson, stance, supervision | 9 Comments

not letting go of the text

Posted on July 9, 2018 by pat thomson

A couple of weeks ago I was asked if I had any advice for someone who struggled to let go of their writing – they wrote but then it was really difficult to send the writing off to their supervisor. … Continue reading →

Posted in academic writing, critique, supervision, text, text work/identity work | Tagged letting go, Pat Thomson, supervision, supervision pedagogies, text | 12 Comments

the viva and the supervisor

Posted on December 18, 2017 by pat thomson

Last week I reached thirty two. Thirty two doctoral researchers who successfully defended their research. Thirty two Doctors let loose on the world. And two things are now on my mind. Not thirty two. Just two. The first thing I’m … Continue reading →

Posted in academic writing, PhD, phd defence, supervision, supervisor, viva | Tagged Pat Thomson, supervision, supervisor, viva | 2 Comments

that bleeding thesis…

Posted on August 3, 2017 by pat thomson

No. I’m not cussing. Let me explain why. My colleague Brigitte Nerlich sent me an email the other day. She said: I was talking to a PhD student (not one of mine) and this student repeatedly used a metaphor which … Continue reading →

Posted in Brigitte Nerlich, feedback, supervision, supervisor, thesis | Tagged Brigitte Nerlich, feedback, Pat Thomson, supervision, thesis | 9 Comments

co–writing with your supervisor – the authorship question

Posted on April 10, 2017 by pat thomson

A doctoral researcher recently told me, and several others who were in the room at the same time, that he wanted to write a journal article. Good eh. No. Not really. The trouble was that his supervisor insisted on being … Continue reading →

Posted in authorship, co-writing, supervisor, Uncategorized | Tagged academic writing, co-writing, Pat Thomson, supervision, writing with your supervisor | 12 Comments

supervision and feedback

Posted on April 14, 2014 by pat thomson

So this week there’s a bit of tweet humour about how US grad students might interpret feedback from faculty trained in the UK. If you haven’t seen it here’s a taste. They say “With the greatest respect”, the grad student … Continue reading →

Posted in academic writing, doctoral pedagogies, feedback, supervision | Tagged feedback, Liz Lerman, Pat Thomson, supervision | 5 Comments

troubleshooting research supervision

Posted on March 3, 2014 by pat thomson

This is a guest post by Catherine Flynn and Kerry Brydon, both social work academics at Monash University, Australia. We read with interest Rebecca Coles’ recent account of the challenges of research supervision, from the perspective of a PhD student. … Continue reading →

Posted in Flynn and Brydon, Kardushin, social work, supervision | Tagged Catherine Flynn, Kardushin, Kerry Brydon, social work, supervision | 8 Comments

why supervisions can be hard

Posted on February 20, 2014 by pat thomson

This post is from Rebecca Coles, a doctor-in-waiting at The University of Nottingham. She has recently handed in her thesis (yippee and well done), an ethnographic study examining what counts as ‘education’ at an independent ‘art house’ cinema. When I … Continue reading →