Writing for Research

Raewyn Connell PART TWO: HOW TO WRITE A JOURNAL ARTICLE - PRACTICAL STEPS INTRODUCTION Part Two of “Writing for Research” discus ...

Writing for Research A: THE EPITOME This is a step that writing-advice manuals often overlook, because they are focussed on the ...

Raewyn Connell Primordial soup: one of my epitomes. This one is for a book chapter; I use it here because of the nice colours, w ...

Writing for Research At this stage you abandon most of the mad hypotheses that were OK in the Epitome, because you now want only ...

Raewyn Connell My Argument-outline, 5th iteration. This is for the same piece of writing as the Epitome, above, so you can see h ...

Writing for Research Take five deep breaths, go back to the raw material and check your data, go back to the analysis and think ...

Raewyn Connell One of my first drafts, from the days of the typewriter. ...

Writing for Research But I would say there are advantages to preparing carefully before starting a First Draft. This has to do, ...

Raewyn Connell When I say “hearing” sentences, this is literal not metaphorical. There’s a music in prose; a well-written paragr ...

Writing for Research Oxywelder. (Image: Patrick White and his cat, The Telegraph by ROSS) more like feather-stitching, when I ha ...

Raewyn Connell E: PRESENTATION OF YOUR PAPER So you have drafted and then revised and revised and revised your paper. Now it’s r ...

Writing for Research 32 The golden rule, in presenting your paper to a journal, is this: Be Kind To Editors! You may think of an ...

Raewyn Connell F: PUBLICATION At Step E, you will often get a rejection. The journal might decide not to review your paper, or t ...

Writing for Research In this process, the editor, or more often nowadays a professional copy-editor, will go through the text to ...

Raewyn Connell The last stage of all is the waiting. This can be disconcerting. If it’s a high-prestige journal, you can wait fo ...

Writing for Research PART THREE: THE BIG PICTURE 1 : WRITING PROGRAMMES There’s a widely-held belief that writing happens by sud ...

Raewyn Connell I gradually turn this list into a programme of work. I note, in the list, any deadlines: dates when I am due to g ...

Writing for Research A room of one's own Emotion work. (Image: Teacher’s Work 1 985, Allen & Unwin Australia) So what I have ...

Raewyn Connell think cheap “hot desking” is good enough for doctoral students and research staff are making a really bad calcula ...

Writing for Research Research impacts. (Image: Wikimedia Commons) “research outputs”) take a long time to pass through the pipel ...