Section outline

  • PowerPoint and useful materials from the 13th November Doctoral Writing Group seminar.

    • Pat Thomson, Working with Literatures: Love the Uncertainty URL

      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.

    • Raul Pacheco-Vega, Finding the Most Relevant Information in a Paper when Reading: A Three-Step Method URL

      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'. 

    • Doctoral Writing Workshop 2 - Writing Whilst Reading File