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Flog of the Prokonsul

Internet fluency, digital governance and Wikipedia propaganda. You have been warned.

Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Sessions Three and Four

Seems like I saved the Session Three as a draft and forgot to publish it. So now - two sessions in one post, for your reading pleasure.

Session Three

After a major revision, save your paper under a different name - so you can go back and see past revisions if needed.

When the paper is ready? Ask a friend to judge - or if you have no deadline, take breaks and after a week or two 'take a fresh look' at it.

Consider reading your text aloud to yourself. You can hear some akward phares and correct them then.

Coauthors are great reviewers. Try getting one :)

Make your sentences flow logicaly. Don't repeat yourself, consider where to place important information. Don't put it where nobody expects it.

Look at articles you like in a journal you'd like to publish in. How can you make your article look similar to those?

PS. Few interesting things that came in various discussions recently. If you have a video to share and want to reach people, consider video sharing services like YouTube or Google Video. Similarly, consider sharing pictures - for example Flickr or Wikimedia Commons. Important thing to consider: free licences. If you want your contributions to have large impact, I strongly recommend sharing them under free licences; most popular one are the Creative Commons. Highly recommend reading: open access. If you quickly want to build a webpage, consider Google Page Creator (or any wiki farm, for course).

Session Four

Not strictly related to writing, but I have to say that teaching through games is one of my favourite strategies. Interesting sites to visit to share and discuss such ideas: Wikiversity, Open Content Teaching Educational Games Resources.

If you have a statement that you are unsure about but may be important, consider doing a quick look for references (citations) to support your point. My favourite tools for that: Google Book Search and Google Scholar.



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