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Fieldnotes
Informal communication about all areas of my professional work, from reflections on my ethnographic research experiences and updates on my academic activities, to posts focused on pedagogy and writing
Editing: Refining your ideas by mutilating your writing
Editing is work. It takes a long time and involves lots of decisions about what is or isn’t working in your manuscript. If you edit your work too soon, you will ruin it, but once you have taken the time to draft and revise your manuscript, editing it makes your message shine.
Revising: Re-vision your writing
Revision is the key stage of the writing process where your understanding of the topic often happens. As you gain a better understanding of the topic, you discover how to structure that topic for your reader in a way that best conveys your message. Of all the writing stages, you will spend the most time on revising.
When your dissertation turns out really different from your proposal
Changes to dissertation research are expected. In fact, these changes can make your project better.
Crisis Adaptation as an Academic
Re-assessing our personal and professional processes and priorities can be an appropriate response to a pandemic. It does not mean we have failed in some way.