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Tag Archives: creative
Research and Teaching: the Second Stretch
From amongst a wide circle of friends and colleagues who are both research active and teaching-active – to coin a new phrase – I’d say it’s extremely important to acknowledge that flexibility is both a personal and professional good. A friend who was awarded her doctorate in 2006 found a permanent teaching post within twelve months of completing. Her lectureship was not in History which was her “home” discipline if you like but in Criminology – she was able to develop a subsidiary interest into one which she could use as a foundation for her career. Read More
Running your own live literature night – part three
Part three of my how-to guide on running your own live literature night. Read More
Running your own live literature night – part two
Part two of my how to set up a live literature night guide. Read More
Running your own live literature night – part one
Part one of a guide to planning your own live literature night. Read More
Voices in Fiction
Voices I’ve been pondering what to write for this post, as I haven’t been that successful with my work recently. At my last meeting my supervisor again expressed doubts about my main character’s voice — it’s not very believable. Although … Read More
Tagged: creative, fiction, first person, monologue, narrative, voice, writing
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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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