Category: On Writing

In which I share an experience of ‘threshold crossing’ as a way to understand being ‘stuck’

In which I wonder what Foucault would have to say about word processing software.

Stuck with all that literature? Here’s five simple ideas to make sense of it all.

There’s so many, many books on the market that claim to help you with your PhD – which ones are worth buying? I have been thinking about it this topic for some time, but it’s still hard to decide. So here’s a provisional top 5, based on books I use again and again in my …continue reading.

Last week I was in Readings bookstore, with a $100 book voucher burning a hole in my pocket, when I spied a book called ‘On writing well: the classic guide to writing non fiction’ by William Zinsser. According to the cover ‘On writing well’ has sold more than a million copies, which piqued my curiosity …continue reading.

Want to write a winning grant application? The Whisperer rethinks the problem in a non listy kind of way.

In her second guest post Heather writes about the discomfort that often attends breakthroughs in understanding.

Is your writing mannered and your ideas disappearing in a maze of fancy academic language? Perhaps you are being pressed under the dead hand of the thesis genre!

Inger finds herself at home and highly medicated

When I was hunting through my reader request pile I found this email from @thetokenlefty asking about writing for different  audiences: I had a quick question for you about this 5,000 word literature review I have to write for my methods course.  It is going to be read and marked by people like yourself — …continue reading.