Pat Thomson

Refining Your Academic Writing (eBook, PDF)

Strategies for Reading, Revising and Rewriting

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book will help you complete your writing project and provides a reading, revising, and rewriting repertoire that you can adapt and add to. It offers ways to think about revision and a basic tool kit which will help you to identify what needs your attention and why.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000806274
• Artikelnr.: 66385440

Autorenporträt

Pat Thomson is Professor of Education, School of Education, The University of Nottingham, UK. She maintains an academic writing and research blog Patter which now has some 35,000 followers around the world: her Twitter account has 23,000. She regularly runs writing workshops in the UK, Australia, Iceland and Norway, has taught writing in South Africa, Canada, USA, Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, Sweden and Denmark and run workshops for several EU doctoral networks and conferences.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Why 'Refining'?
2. Refine With Attitude
3. Start at the Beginning
4. See Your Whole Text
5. Strengthen Your Argument
6. Make Your Text Trustworthy
7. Write With Authority
8. Stating Your Case
9. Quote and Cite Wisely
10. Find Your Flow
11. Tackle Turgid Prose
12. Check Your Idiosyncrasies
13. Delight Your Reader
14. Afterword: Tests and Checklists