Weekly Wisdom #10
Remember that good writing is about what you take out, not what you leave in!
Weekly Wisdom #9
Book Writing, Books, Conference Paper Writing, Conference Papers, Grant Writing, Grants, Journal Article Writing, Journal Articles
August 2, 2010
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Weekly Wisdom #9
When it comes to writing, disconnect from the internet for a while (or at the very least from social networking sites and email) and just write!
As I’d decided this site was long over-due for a post on the actual nuts and bolts process of writing, I was grateful to find a post on Fuel Your Writing on Making Writing Easy: Practical Tools. It’s basically a list of tools to support your writing by helping you manage the process more effectively.
The interesting thing about doing a PhD, but which seldom gets discussed, is the natural way you tend to evolve your own techniques for writing and researching. I still like to hand-write notes when I do an initial trawl through a book, so when I started my PhD, I printed out a batch of note cover-pages. The cover-page allowed me to quickly and clearly record a complete reference for the book and summarise both its content and what areas were of particular relevance to my own research. It was a bit clunky (I didn’t get all the boxes the right size and never got round to changing it) but at times it was such a life saver when I knew I’d read something, somewhere, at some point that was sort of related…
