Half of writing is editing

We often forget, when giving students feedback about their academic writing, that EDITING is a huge part of the writing job. Maybe half of o...

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Two great pieces of advice

Earlier this year I read two great blog posts by two awesome academic writing experts. Professor Pat Thomson talked about 'propositional...

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Giving our power away

One regular piece of feedback I find I give my students is about giving their power away. This is, of course, based on the feedback I had fr...

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The Laundry List Lit Review

My local PhD advisor told me off for giving my power away in my writing by starting off a paragraph with "X says, and Y says", s...

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Cutting the fat

Does the idea of editing text to trim the fat make you grind your teeth? Yep, it does me too. However, sometimes when we write we add in l...

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