Session Two

We were discussing Google Documents. As it's a new feature of Google, few people have heard about it: it's quite interesting tool for collaborative editing, you can read more about it here. Other popular proposal included posting docs to our Courseweb and replying in the internal forum.

Has anybody used Web of Science?

Politics and the English Language: read it here from anywhere.

Good tip about 'where to publish your work': look through your bibliography.

Freewriting seems to be popular... or freecharting :)

This week's idea #1: try not to use passive at all. #2 Look at your current writing. Normalize it. See if somebody outside the discipline can understand your writing.

Task: Introductions and conclusions. Find journals you'd like to submit your work to. Look through some articles and find intro's and conclusions you like. Bulletpoint what's nice about them. How can we incorporate them into our work?

Quote of the week: "What's scary about being a writer?" How can be deal with this fear?

PS. Discussed last time: Steven E. Gump, Writing Successful Covering Letters for Unsolicited Submissions to Academic Journals, Journal of Scholarly Publishing 35.2 (2004) 92-102

PS2. Send comments about a paper to the author..

PS3. You can post comments to this blog, you know - just click 'comments' below.

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