Remember this is not an Essay, Pat Thomson reminds PhD Candidates

Nearly finished a PhD?  Pat Thomson, Education Professor blogging as 'Patter', provides a handy checklist for anyone about to submit their doctoral dissertation.  Read it HERE.

Dancers, Choreography, Live Art, Writing

Education professor Pat Thomson (Nottingham) has been involved in a project concerning young people's experience of live art.  In her latest blog she provides a link to that project, and then goes on to blog about how "warm-ups" are as useful for writers as for dancers.

Take a look at her blogpost here: Writing Warm-Ups

'Patter' Writes about Turning Your Thesis into a Book

Let me remind you of one of my favourite blogs - 'Patter' writes about the research process and scholarly writing.  She's actually Professor Pat Thomson, Education Professor in Nottingham.

Today she writes about 'Turning Your Thesis into a Book'/

Speaking as one who has recently done just that, I can confirm she makes some very valid points.

Patter - homepage: http://patthomson.wordpress.com/

Read 'Patter' - Pat Thomson's Blog on Research and Scholarly Writing

Pat Thomson is an Education Professor in Nottingham. 

Her blog on research skills and scholarly writing is always well-considered and a good read.  Today she offers this:-

An Unhealthy Paranoia? On 'losing' Academic Work

Writing for publication

There's a new post on Patter (Pat Thomson's blog) which might interest anyone with the urge to go into print ...

Writing for publication – it’s just a matter of meeting the conventions of a journal, right?

by pat thomson

Self-plagiarism

Sounds like some new kind of perversion, doesn't it? But basically, Pat Thomson writes about the perils of submitting substantially the same paper to two different journals.  And that's called self-plagiarism.

Dangerous, indeed.  Read on ...