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Category Archives: writing

Making our research dialogue with the broader scholarly literature in our academic writing July 22, 2025
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6 tips to re-start your writing practice April 2, 2025
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Learning how to deal with rejection in academia… January 2, 2025
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Of zombie papers and manuscripts… December 30, 2024
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The value and importance of the pre-writing stage of writing July 16, 2024
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My experience teaching residential academic writing workshops June 28, 2024
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Reading Like a Writer – Francine Prose – my reading notes February 26, 2024
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Using the Pacheco-Vega workflows and frameworks to write and/or revise a scholarly book July 16, 2023
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On framing, the value of narrative and storytelling in scholarly research, and the importance of asking the “what is this a story of” question April 3, 2023
Posted in academia, research, research methods, writing.
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The Abstract Decomposition Matrix Technique to find a gap in the literature March 30, 2023
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Reading is writing: To situate your work within the broader literature, you need to READ August 21, 2022
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3 fundamental lessons about reading and academic writing August 21, 2022
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Preparing for the PhD defense/viva? Use the GDN instead of a DTP August 21, 2022
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On Cornell Notes and the importance of noting down EVERYTHING including the article or book chapter (or book) full citation. August 19, 2022
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A few strategies to overcome writer’s block June 30, 2022
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“Parking your writing downhill” as a strategy to keep momentum with your academic writing April 23, 2022
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On writing about, thinking and teaching research methods. April 23, 2022
Posted in academia, fieldwork, research, research methods, teaching, writing.
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The realities of writing: loving it and having to work hard for it April 23, 2022
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On making explicit your contribution to the larger literature and bodies of knowledge by using a case study in a particular region. April 23, 2022
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Using a Ventilation File to help break free from writers’ block April 1, 2022
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How to write field notes (and how to teach the writing of fieldnotes) October 12, 2021
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The Memo-Based Writing Strategy: Helping students write large-ish (>2,500 words) assignments August 14, 2021
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A proposed heuristic to choose which note-taking technique we should use: Index Cards, Cornell Notes, Everything Notebook and Conceptual Synthesis Excel Dump (CSED) rows/Synthetic Notes July 16, 2021
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Overcoming “Writer’s Block” with Index Cards and Memorandums April 5, 2021
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Tackling an R&R (Revise-And-Resubmit) – a full-fledged process February 13, 2021
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