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who should be checking for AI generated references?
https://patthomson.net/2026/05/18/who-should-be-checking-for-ai-generated-references/
Published: May 18, 2026 03:11
Graham Kendall studies academic publishing. He recently ran the numbers on what peer review costs the UK higher education sector. His calculations are worth quoting: “In the UK, there are about 46,500 higher education academics. The total wage bill is…
From thesis to monograph
https://patthomson.net/2026/05/10/from-thesis-to-monograph/
Published: May 10, 2026 07:32
This is a guest post written by Dr Rachel Lehner-Mear. She has recently published a book reporting her doctoral research on mothers and primary school homework. There’s nothing quite like holding your first book in your hands. The tactile nature of the…
key word – coherence in research design
https://patthomson.net/2026/05/03/key-word-coherence-in-research-design/
Published: May 3, 2026 01:14
Coherence in research design is not the same as coherence in academic writing, although the two are related. Research design coherence is sometimes described through the metaphor of a red thread, one continuous line of logic running from the question…
key word – coherence in academic writing
https://patthomson.net/2026/04/26/key-word-coherence-in-academic-writing/
Published: April 26, 2026 23:44
A coherent piece of writing is one where the parts connect to the whole. That sounds obvious, but it can be difficult to achieve. That’s partly because the whole is surprisingly easy to lose sight of, especially in long texts where the writing happens…
placemaking and the academic writer
https://patthomson.net/2026/04/20/placemaking-and-the-academic-writer/
Published: April 20, 2026 04:25
I’ve just read a paper about epistemic placemaking. Epistemic placemaking is equipping and arranging places for knowledge work. The paper suggests that students might actively co-design the spaces they need, rather than simply inhabiting whatever…
key word – concision
https://patthomson.net/2026/04/12/key-word-concision/
Published: April 12, 2026 10:07
Concision is not the same as brevity. A short piece of writing can be wasteful with its words, and a long piece can be meaning-full right to the last sentence. Getting concise is about getting clear about meanings, not addressing the total word count. When…
in defence of procrastination
https://patthomson.net/2026/04/06/in-defence-of-procrastination/
Published: April 6, 2026 05:02
Procrastination often gets a bad rap in academic writing advice circles. It’s generally seen as a problem to be managed, a symptom of anxiety or perfectionism. In other words, it’s a productivity failure. Writing advice givers like me have designed entire…
forwarding – writing with other people’s texts
https://patthomson.net/2026/03/30/forwarding-writing-with-other-peoples-texts/
Published: March 30, 2026 05:44
We’ve probably all read papers where the writer has treated the literature as something to be surveyed and reported. the result often takes the shape of the dreaded laundry list, where the writer plods through their reading list book by book. Paper by…
the process of writing
https://patthomson.net/2026/03/22/the-process-of-writing/
Published: March 22, 2026 05:25
People often refer to writing as thinking without necessarily knowing where and how this idea developed. It is in part from Linda Flower and John Hayes who published a paper in 1981 offering a cognitive process theory of writing. And reading their paper…
what’s Habermas got to do with academic writing?
https://patthomson.net/2026/03/15/whats-habermas-got-to-do-with-academic-writing/
Published: March 15, 2026 22:39
Jürgen Habermas died on Saturday 14 March, 2026 in Starnberg, near Munich. He was 96. The news has been moving through academic social media in the way these things do, with people sharing half-remembered seminars and dog-eared copies of books that changed…