Doctoral Writing Group
Topic outline
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Note-taking, literature review, reviews of related practice, etc
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Add examples of literature review writing IN PROGRESS here for peer feedback on Monday 22 January. If each person could start a new forum that's helpful.
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Inserting yourself into your writing with or without personal pronouns
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Focussing on the choices available to you in doctoral writing to construct your own voice
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Nominalization
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PowerPoint and useful materials from the 5th October Doctoral Writing Group seminar.
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From Rachael's blog, Explorations of Style A Blog about Academic Writing, which on the left-hand column has links to three extremely helpful 'key principles' of academic writing (of which this is number 1!).
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Pat Thomson's neologism proposes that Thinking and Writing are basically the same thing. Her blog is a treasure trove of helpful advice for academic writers, besides.
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Some excerpts from helpful guides on academic writing that speak to the quotidian, spatial-bodily nature of writing as a 'practice'.
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PowerPoint and useful materials from the 13th November Doctoral Writing Group seminar.
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Pat Thomson reviews Petre and Rugg's how-to-PhD guide to demonstrate that existential terror in the face of an unknowable totality of knowledge not only never goes away, but is exactly what research is all about. Pat's blog is highly recommended as a resource for practical academic writing and research tips.
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Raul Pacheco-Vega describes the 'AIC Extraction Method' - Abstract, Introduction, Conclusion. This and similar methods in other guides can be a quick-and-dirty way to assess whether a text belongs in you 'Collective' or 'Inner' libraries (Thomson + Kamler, 2016) - and also, whether it deserves a more in-depth read! Raul's blog hyperlinks to a lot of extremely helpful step-by-step guides on germaine topics to this workshop, including annotated bibliographies, note-taking methods (including 'Cornell notes'), and more in-depth ways of processing reading through your writing praxis - what he calls 'Memoranda' and a 'rhetorical precis'.
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