Tag Archives: text work/identity work

text work/identity work

Posted on September 9, 2015 by pat thomson

When we write we not only produce text, we also produce ourselves as scholars. As we make textual decisions – what to write about, who to cite and who to leave out, what evidence to include, how we use language … Continue reading →

Posted in academic writing, literature review, text work/identity work | Tagged academic writing, Barbara Kamler, literature review, Pat Thomson, text work/identity work | 7 Comments

a blogging ‘identity’

Posted on January 21, 2013 by pat thomson

I erased a post this morning, for the first time. I didn’t get rid of it altogether, because it’s OK. I just removed it from the schedule and saved it. I took it out of this blog because I realized … Continue reading →

Posted in academic blogging, identity, pedagogy, public/private, text work/identity work, there | Tagged academic blogging, Pat Thomson, pedagogy, public/private, Rachel Cusk, text work/identity work | 17 Comments

I’d like to thank… the important work of acknowledgements

Posted on January 14, 2013 by pat thomson

I’m co-editing a book series at present. I’m not sure why, since I swore after the last one I would never do it again, but there you go. Just a slow learner or weak-willed, I guess. Last week one of … Continue reading →

Posted in academic writing, acknowledgements, books, dissertation, gift economy, Ken Hyland, thesis | Tagged acknowledgements, gift economy, Ken Hyland, Pat Thomson, text work/identity work | 6 Comments

writing the thesis from day one is risky

Posted on October 25, 2012 by pat thomson

I was reading a final draft of a thesis written by one of the doctoral researchers I was working with. I’d just started and the text was going along very nicely indeed until I reached the end of the first … Continue reading →