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Category Archives: literature review
getting tense about tense
In a recent comment to this blog someone asked me if I had any tips on managing tense. They found themselves, they said, wandering around in time as they wrote, meandering from present to past and back again, undertaking an … Continue reading
Posted in academic writing, grammar, literature review, methodology, methods chapter, tense, thesis
Tagged academic writing, methodology, Paltridge and Starfield, Pat Thomson, tense
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what not to do in a thesis conclusion, part one: christmas present five
The conclusion is one of the most important sections of the thesis, yet it is often done quite badly. This is not good because the conclusion is a key part of the text and thesis writers really need to spend … Continue reading
Posted in claims, conclusion, introduction, literature review, thesis
Tagged conclusion, Pat Thomson, thesis
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a lit review thinking tool – christmas present two
Working with literatures is a complex task. It is one of the places where doctoral and early career researchers come unstuck. One of the very many reasons that it’s problematic is, in my view, because there is not sufficient discussion … Continue reading
stepping back to focus in – literature review stage three. #acwrimo work in progress
The title of this post – and of this stage of the literature review – might sound confusing. How can you both step back and focus in? Well I want you to imagine that you’re in an art gallery. If … Continue reading
mapping the literatures – noting. #acwrimo work in progress
I have been asked many times to talk about my own noting practices. So now seems like as good a time as any. What do my notes look like for this literatures work? The caveat I must make here is … Continue reading
mapping the literatures, step two. #acwrimo work in progress
I left off the last post on literature work at the point of having a base set of literatures about blogging that I had drawn from peer-reviewed journals. I’d skimmed all of the abstracts once, in order to weed out … Continue reading
literature review step one, scoping. #acwrimo work in progress
One of the things that we all have to do when starting a piece of research is to find out what else has been said about our topic. This is usually called the literature review, although I prefer to think … Continue reading
Posted in academic blogging, disciplines, journal, literature review, scoping, search
Tagged academic blogging, journals, literature review, Pat Thomson, scoping, search, Thesis Whisperer
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writing the thesis from day one is risky
I was reading a final draft of a thesis written by one of the doctoral researchers I was working with. I’d just started and the text was going along very nicely indeed until I reached the end of the first … Continue reading
is there a format for a thesis?
There is a format for the thesis and it goes like this – Introduction, Literature review, Methods, Report of research findings, Discussion and conclusion. This is known as ILMRaD. Many theses follow this structure and it does ‘work’ – it’s … Continue reading
Posted in chapter, default, ILMRaD, literature review, methods chapter, PhD, thesis
Tagged default thesis structure, ILMRaD, literature review, methods chapter, Pat Thomson
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