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Tag Archives: writing
Writing essays is not a generic skill
Chris Atherton‘s most recent blog post makes a great contribution to debates about assessment, and essay writing in particular. Getting Students to Build Things Out of Concrete (Examples, that is) Go read it and come back. This post started as … Continue reading
Posted in Teaching Skills
Tagged academic literacies, assessment, Chris Atherton, essays, Finite Attention, skills, writing
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I don’t like the term “unconference”
Call me an unreformed social constructionist but I think language has power. Calling these really cool new types of conferences things like “unconferences” “camps” and whatever just cedes the definition of “conference” to people whose primary goal seems to be … Continue reading
Posted in Presenting
Tagged collaboration, communication, conference, Hook & Eye, unconference, writing
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On advice about publishing before securing an academic job
Your doctoral supervisor (and indeed the entire department) has an interest in you getting a tenure-track job. It is in their interests to give you good advice.
That said, sometimes their knowledge of the labour market is limited. Assume that they have good intentions, but don’t treat their advice as gospel. Things have been changing fast. Continue reading
Posted in Career Planning
Tagged academic job search, book publishing, humanities, information interviews, monograph, Publishing, writing
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Catch Yourself Doing Something Right
A has been struggling with finding time to write regularly and that she wants to build this habit. The other day she mentions that she is writing and adds that she didn’t got as much done as she wanted to. … Continue reading