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Category Archives: Non-fiction Writing
Interview advice – tell them the truth they want to hear
Interview advice – strategies for interviews in publishing Read More
Let’s Talk: Shaping Your Thesis for Publication
I began this blog with a short post on “Getting Published” http://www.jobs.ac.uk/blogs/language-and-literature/2011/04/27/let%E2%80%99s-talk-getting-published/. In that post I discussed the basic principles of why and how we as collective knowledge builders undertake this central scholarly activity. Today I would simply like to share some of my personal experiences of the difficult process of shaping a short 7000-8000 word article from my 95,000 word plus PhD thesis.
Tagged: being human, creative, critical, dialogue, doctorate, humanities, PhD, plotting, researcher, structure, writing
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Let’s Talk: Meeting Adrian Holliday
Professor Adrian Holliday is the Head of the Graduate School at Canterbury Christ Church University and also Professor of Applied Linguistics at the Department of English and Language Studies at Canterbury Christ Church University. It is an enormous pleasure to welcome him to this blog.
A wider view of Adrian’s teaching, research and publication profile can be found on his homepage: https://sites.google.com/site/adrianholliday42/
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Let’s Talk: Staying Earthed
I live and work in two countries: India and Britain and within two cultures which are usually perceived as extremely different to each other. From where I stand, it’s the similarities which strike home. Any urban professional, anywhere, is similarly expected to focus on the visual and the mental. But we are starving ourselves. I didn’t realize how much until I took up a yoga and movement course, which has helped me to bring movement back into my daily work day.
Let’s Talk: Getting Published
To begin this first blog I would like to say a few things about who I am, why I write these posts and who I hope they will reach and find a response from. I am a humanities scholar writing for and looking forward to hearing from, anyone who is involved in considering the present shape and the future of humanities scholarship.
In practical terms the need to publish seems to me the most pressing issue for scholars who, like me, have recently completed their doctoral work. Read More
