Mickey over at The Blossoming-Fledgling Researcher blog shows her own annotation process for taking notes in books and reducing distractions. It looks fascinating.
She also recommends The Different Stages of the Writing Process and Embodied Learning & its Productive Limitations here on Research Degree Voodoo. I love getting feedback that let’s me know what you find useful!
It’s a typical piece of advice to give authors of articles and theses, that you need to explain the ‘so what?’ of your contribution. But in English you can use this phrase in two very distinct ways depending on how you say it.
My co-author was doing his final read through of our big academic book, and complained to me that it made his wrists tired and tight
I’ve just finished a book, and my co-author and I had fun thinking about who we would like to thank in the Acknowledgements section, and you will need to do the same at some point. But you might also want to make a less formal, less constrained, more honest version!
