Wordle – mix it up!

Wordle – have I gone dislexic? Has my spell-checker given up through exhaustion?  No Wordle is a strange little online application written by an IBM programmer, but made available free to anyone who wants to try it.  It takes text which you can paste in and analyses it for repeated words, and then provides a [...]

Becoming an Author

Becoming an Author: Advice for Academics and Other Professionals by David Canter (Liverpool), Gavin Fairbairn (Leeds Met) Table of contents David Canter and Gavin Fairbairn provide an interesting discussion of how to become an academic author tackling a range of aspects of the process, with the case studies of various academic authors explaining their perspectives [...]

The Place of Writing in the Disciplines

My last post was about a book by Rowena Murray, one of the main authors in the UK on academic writing. This post is about a paper she wrote – practicing what she preaches – on the place of writing in the disciplines, which she has written with Gavin Heron, a colleague at Strathchlyde.  They [...]

SRHE Workshop Details

I recently received this from the SRHE: Academic Writing Skills and Getting Published Phillips Room, 76 Portland Place, London, W1B 1NT Wednesday 8th April 2009 (10:45am-3:00pm) The purpose of this event is to provide advice to newer researchers on two key areas: developing academic writing skills, and how to get published. We are delighted to [...]