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This book will help you complete your writing project and provides a reading, revising, and rewriting repertoire that you can adapt and add to. It offers ways to think about revision and a basic tool kit which will help you to identify what needs your attention and why.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction; 1. Why 'Refining'?; 2. Refine With Attitude; 3. Start at the Beginning; 4. See Your Whole Text; 5. Strengthen Your Argument; 6. Make Your Text Trustworthy; 7. Write With Authority; 8. Stating Your Case; 9. Quote and Cite Wisely; 10. Find Your Flow; 11. Tackle Turgid Prose; 12. Check Your Idiosyncrasies; 13. Delight Your Reader; 14. Afterword: Tests and Checklists
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Pat Thomson is Professor of Education, School of Education, The University of Nottingham, UK. She maintains an academic writing and research blog Patter which now has some 35,000 followers around the world: her Twitter account has 23,000. She regularly runs writing workshops in the UK, Australia, Iceland and Norway, has taught writing in South Africa, Canada, USA, Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, Sweden and Denmark and run workshops for several EU doctoral networks and conferences.
Zusammenfassung
This book will help you complete your writing project and provides a reading, revising, and rewriting repertoire that you can adapt and add to. It offers ways to think about revision and a basic tool kit which will help you to identify what needs your attention and why.
