thegirlwiththelilactattoo

[thegirlwiththelilactattoo]

hello!! im thinking about doing a post (or series of posts) about revising a chapter of my dissertation — are there things you want to know about the process (notes: it’s a social science/monograph style dissertation and ofc im not an expert, but i want to write something useful for me and others!)

#phdblr #diss update #dissertation #grad school #gradblogging #academia

[thegirlwiththelilactattoo]

how you can help palestine

*i regularly update this post with any new info i find so please always reblog the original post*

Donations

donations currently reaching gaza:

help buy e-sims for people in gaza (PLEASE HELP CONNECT GAZANS TO THE WORLD. if you would like to stay updated, please follow @/Mirna_elhelbawi on twitter)

currently holafly e-sims are needed. please donate.

donate to get food packages to gaza - care for gaza

support palestinians: buy a keffiyeh from the last and only factory in palestine - hirbawi

secondary donations:

palestine children's relief fund

palestine red crescent society

save palestine - islamic relief canada

send medical supplies to gaza - palestinian american medical association

click to donate - arab.org

donate for the recovery of hisham awartani - gofundme

one of the three palestinian students shot by a racist in vermont for wearing kufiyas and speaking arabic. hisham’s injuries have left him paralysed from below the chest.

help bring down israel's weapon trade - palaction

NOTE: journalists based in gaza are saying a demand for ceasefire is the priority as not all donations are reaching gazans (focus on the donations that are directly reaching gaza). so please contact your local MPs every single day demanding as such. palestine need a permanent ceasefire.

Petitions

petition to investigate war crimes committed by israeli military

demand ceasefire - amnesty.org

open call for immediate ceasefire

american government call for immediate ceasefire

american government to stop funding israeli military

ceasefire and increase humanitarian assistance - oxfam au

petition to get canva to address their pro-israel stance

invoke the genocide convention to call for ceasefire in gaza - world beyond war

location specific petitions

gaza call for ceasefire - oxfam (UK)

end israeli occupation - parliament uk (UK)

email your MP - medical aid for palestine (UK)

protect gaza civilians - islamic relief (UK)

stop fuelling genocide - action network (USA)

@ biden: call for ceasefire now - move on (USA)

ceasefirenow.com - jewishvoiceofpeace (USA)

call congress and demand a ceasefire - uscpr (USA - they provide a script of what you should say, so don't worry about it)

note: you can call everyday. they tally the number of calls per issue. so more calls = higher chance for them to take action. p.s. you mainly go to voicemail so don’t worry about phone call anxiety. fight through it just this once please.

australia call on israel to stop attacking palestinians - apan (AUS)

immediate ceasefire and increase in humanitarian aid in gaza - actionaid (AUS)

email your MPs - stand with palestine (AUS)

[EN5622] call for ceasefire and end to occupation - parliament of australia (AUS)

closes 13 dec @ 8.59pm AEST

[EN5628] retract governmental support to israel and demand ceasefire - parliament of australia (AUS)

closes 13 dec @ 8.59pm AEST

sign to send letter to MP for ceasefire - nccm (CANADA)

ceasefire now! - ijv (CANADA)

ceasefire and allow aid to enter gaza - oxfam (CANADA)

house of commons petition 4661 (CANADA)

closes 9 dec @ 11.03am EDT

cessez-le-feu et un couloir humanitaire - le mouvement (FRANCE)

write to your député - assemblée nationale (FRANCE)

skydda civilbefolkningen i gaza! - mittskifte (SWEDEN)

singaporeans call for immediate ceasefire (SIN)

contact your elected reps and demand a ceasefire (GERMANY)

write to the EU demanding a ceasefire (EUROPE)

template of letters you can send (EU)

guide on how to contact your MPs in EU

p.s. if the template is outdated, just use it as a guide and add a few sentences here and there that reflect the current situation. i can’t find any recent templates so :/ at least this is something

multiple actions you can take to help palestine - plant een olifbloom (NETHERLANDS)

includes: links for donations, emails to MP, emails to media, links to petitions and demonstrations

den haag, maak nú werk van vrede in israël/Palestina - the right forum (NETHERLANDS)

māori call for palestine - ourActionStation (NZ)

special visa for palestinians in gaza with family in NZ - NZ parliament/pāremata aotearoa (NZ)

deem israeli actions as war crimes - NZ parliament/pāremata aotearoa (NZ)

basta ao genocídio em Gaza! - awaaz (BRAZIL)

globo e grande mídia, parem de desumanizar civis palestinos - the intercept (BRAZIL)

Campaigns

friends of al-aqsa

❥ UK-specific

urge your MP to speak up for palestine

hands off al-aqsa

stop administrative detention

petition for UK to stop arming israel

❥ International

boycott puma — email them to end their partnership with israel

boycott coca-cola

palestine action

join the resistance

islamic relief canada

urge your MP to rally for ceasefire

decolonise palestine

poster campaign to raise awareness on the war crimes being committed against palestinians | (very very important please share + read the sources provided)

text/call campaign for people living in USA

text CEASEFIRE @ 51905 to call for a ceasefire

text RESIST @ 50409 to send a letter to your representatives to pass HR3103–a bill that prohibits tax dollars from going to israel

download 5Calls app to contact members of your congress | (more info)

fax campaign for people in the USA

go on this website to send 5 free faxes per day

here’s a link to a pre-written fax copy you can download to send (the first link on the linktree)

here’s a video that explains how to fax your senator (it’s very easy and all you need is a valid email address)

BDS movement

get involved in boycotting companies associated with israel

please let me know if you have any more links. i will add them in. and please reblog the original post!!

UPCOMING PROTESTS

PALESTINIAN LITERATURE READING LIST

#free palestine #the daily bare minimum is calling your reps

[thegirlwiththelilactattoo]

continuing in my time honored tradition of not having a post! but updates: am editing a chapter, writing a chapter, writing job materials, drafting a chapter, and getting ready for the semester to start. there's something to say here about the unsustainability in particularly ABD academic life and that overworking oneself and prioritizing an obscene amount of work over self-care is somehow required at this stage. but i'm too tired to think more about that right now.

got feedback on the second draft of my first chapter. it’s seeming like 2 drafts and then a final version for each one might be the trend.

this month has also been *blegh* but hoping to have a legit post by the end of the month???

#phdblr #gradblr #diss update #grad school #would not could not recommend doing what i'm doing haha but i have no choice

[thegirlwiththelilactattoo]

For anyone without easy access to a local library,

I am not an ebook reader myself, but LibGen and the Gutenberg Project are sites I've heard good things about. The others look enticing.

#not mine #helpful

[thegirlwiththelilactattoo]

got feedback on the second draft of my first chapter. it’s seeming like 2 drafts and then a final version for each one might be the trend.

this month has also been *blegh* but hoping to have a legit post by the end of the month???

#mine #phdblr #gradblr #diss update #grad school #academic writing #dissertation #studyblr

[thegirlwiththelilactattoo]

i have three responses to "how is your writing going"

1) it's not

2) it's going

3) i am ENTHUSED. i have been BLESSED with the POWER of the MUSES. i am an UNSTOPPABLE FORCE OF CREATION i am the MOST ULTIMATE OF ALL WRITERS

#not mine

[thegirlwiththelilactattoo]

[thegirlwiththelilactattoo]

i am writing all the time except just like inside of me and not outside

#not mine

[thegirlwiththelilactattoo]

in the latest cyber-news: the internet archive has lost their case against 4 major publishing houses (verge article). they’re going to appeal, but this is still a bad outcome. the fate of the internet is currently hanging in the balance because 4 multibillionare publishing groups missed out on like $15 of combined revenue during the pandemic because of the archive’s online library service. it’s so fucking stupid.

for those who don’t know what the internet archive is, it’s a virtual library full of media. books, magazines, recordings, visuals, flash games, websites - a lot of these things either don’t exist anymore or cannot be found & bought. heard of the wayback machine? that’s part of the internet archive. it is the most important website to exist, and i don’t say that lightly. if the internet archive goes down, the cultural loss will be immeasurable.

so how can you help?

boycott the publishing companies involved in this. they’re absolute ghouls, frankly, and don’t deserve a penny. the companies involved are harpercollins (imprints), wiley (imprints), penguin random house llc (imprints), and hachette book group (imprints). make sure the websites are set to your location as it may differ worldwide.

learn to torrent. download a torrent client (i recommend transmission), a vpn (i recommend protonvpn - sign up and choose the area that’s closest to your continent/country), and hit up /r/piracy on reddit for websites. with torrenting, you can get (almost) any media you want for free in high quality, with add-ons such as subtitles, and with no risks of loss. i would also recommend getting into the habit of watching stuff online for free. the less you can pay to a giant corporation, the better.

get into the habit of downloading and archiving materials. find a TB external hard drive, ideally the higher the better. it’ll probably cost around $60 for 1TB and continue to go up, but they’re so so useful. if you can’t afford a drive, look for any GB harddrives or memory sticks you have lying around and just fill them up. videos, pdfs, magazines, songs, movies, games - anything you can rip and download and fit on there, do it, because nothing is permanent.

donate to the internet archive. this is the most important option on the list. the IA relies entirely on funding, and it’s going to need more to fight this case. whatever you can donate, do it. i promise it’s helpful.

and finally…

#re: last reblog #damn #not mine

[thegirlwiththelilactattoo]

archive dot org has been holding it down for me as i rewrite this chapter (im citing a ton of things from the early 1900s/random books that aren't digitized any other way and am wayyy too impatient to request them from the library)

#gradblr #phdblr #grad school #dissertation #diss update #drabble #also i could have sworn they were getting sued recently but i haven't seen anything about that? #we must protect archive dot org at all costs it's UI is so much better than hathitrust's

[thegirlwiththelilactattoo]

me looking at my research, my research looking at me, me looking at my research, my research looking at me, me looking at my resea

#not mine

[thegirlwiththelilactattoo]

No. 10, or Chapter 2: Electric Boogaloo

Introduction

In my first dissertation chapter, I found it exceptionally challenging to parse out what a chapter was supposed to look like and how to articulate my ideas. These are like pretty fundamental elements of writing, so my first chapter ended up being largely unfocused. I'm a write-as-I-think sort of person, but it felt pretty discouraging to turn in writing I felt wasn't as good as I wanted it to be. After sending the draft off to my committee chair for the first round of comments, I decided I wanted to address the most glaring shortcoming of chapter one in my second chapter. This manifested as two goals: remain in control of the argument and use evidence more efficiently.

Writing Chapter Two

I started chapter two largely the same way as chapter one, with a mind map. I mentioned in a previous post how I use mind maps, so I won't rehash that here (link to that post). The argument and evidence I initially planned in my mind map didn't end up in the draft I turned in...at all. Like in my first chapter, I planned to cover a robust amount of information that ended up being entirely unreasonable to cover in a chapter -- not in the sense that there were too many ideas, but that the strands of discussion didn't amount to an actual argument. I like love to info dump, so my writing often reflects me rambling with no point because I'm excited about what I learned. I ended up chatting with my advisor in the early stages of this chapter (good idea!!) to get her feedback. While I also didn't end up incorporating what we talked about in that conversation, it helped to reframe the chapter with more focus.

Another fail this time around, was my also bad habit of doing a ton of reading before I start writing. I ended up reading a lot about new materialisms because I thought I would do a literature review in this chapter. I didn't find anything particularly interesting in the literature from new materialism or other ontological turn stuff, so instead I wasted a lot of time reading for no reason. idk if I have any coherent advice for this, but I think I learned that I need to start with the data first and then read what feels appropriate to help me write the argument. I'm a firm believer in not deleting words. Instead I move them to a different word doc (I call mine "Chp X Bits") in case I want to include those words later. My Chp 2 Bits ended up being about 10k words of different stops and starts where I tried to figure out how to enter the narrative of the chapter.

After this point, I had another committee member read my draft. This was a bad idea. In my discipline, committee members typically don't expect or want to read rough drafts or be the first pair of eyes on early writing. The committee chair is considered the first line of defense who and gives comments on the initial draft. My other committee member did give some helpful comments about my over reliance on other scholars, which for her, limited my own theoretical contributions. Not sure if other people feel this way, but I've found that grad school has chipped away at my confidence to make authoritative claims that aren't couched in some other theorists' words, so this has been really challenging for me. I took her feedback and deleted entire sections that were just me talking about other scholars. Most of the deleted text didn't appear in the finalized rough draft or if it did, it was in the footnotes as additional context.

I switched gears after this second round of feedback and made an outline of the chapter just with data I collected to ground each section. I wrote a section heading with a scant description of what the data demonstrated and then from there, reorganized the chapter to emerge more organically from the data instead of secondary scholarship. As I wrote, I also used color-coding to organize this draft: words I wanted to keep (black), paragraphs that needed to be moved (green), main ideas the section needed to cover (purple/or highlighted), and stream of consciousness to be rewritten (blue).

Like I said before, I love to info dump and having the main idea of each subsection really helped me stay focused. I also find that using different colors frees me to write messily because it's not the standard text color I'll submit. If it's in blue, I know I have to rewrite it, so it's black text. (I also do this as a write anyway. I write everything single spaced and I double space text to signal to myself that it's finalized.) The color coding also helped structure my editing process because I had a better sense of the edits I wanted to make before I sent the draft off to my chair.

What I Learned/Chapter Three Plans

I won't start writing chapter three until July as I take a "break" to edit my first chapter, work on an article, and outline chapter three. I think that I'm going to focus a lot more intentionally on using the data to structure the chapter. For this chapter, I got a lot of great feedback about the theory, rather than structure because my writing was easier to follow. Without the tangents to secondary data, my writing also felt clearer and more controlled. I did qualitative coding for my data, so I have a ton of thematic codes that I haven't really used to their full potential. I'm going to start the outline from the codes/data to keep my argument consistent.

I also think that I'll check in with my committee chair more often. Usually I meet with her once the chapters done, but having her feedback when I ran into a challenge made a big difference. Especially as I attempt to make theoretical claims sans secondary sources, I want to rely on her more for direction.

Conclusion

So yeah, that's chapter two done, which means I'm halfway done with the rough drafts of my body chapters!! Writing my dissertation has been truly an Experience that I don't think coursework/teaching prepared me for. So much of it feels like throwing anything at the wall to see if it sticks, but I think with each chapter I get closer to understanding what this part of the academic training is supposed to do.

As always if there's anything you would like me to write about, let me know!

#phdblr #studyblr #gradblr #grad school #academic writing #dissertation #writing advice #diss update #gradblogging #academia #it's exceptionally bleak that my break is to work on other writing #that's the real dark academia #are these posts interesting #i never have a sense of what's interesting and what's my own gratuitous navel gazing

[thegirlwiththelilactattoo]

No. 9, or Things I Do Instead of Writing

Excessively Robust Footnotes: If there's one thing my advisor and committee are absolutely itching to read, it's more 400 word footnotes. Is the thought relevant to my dissertation? No...but what will my readership do if they don't know the entire biography of a random person I mention in passing?! Won't they be confused about my ethics if I don't provide an entire metacommentary of critiques of the ontological turn from Indigenous scholars?! How will they bear without insights into my methodology for dating a random undated webpage! Sorry dear committee, the third of this chapter that is in random tangents (that I spent hours looking up instead of writing the body of the chapter or developing the main argument) are essential!!!

Unnecessarily Long Citations: Hmmm...surely one citation isn't enough to substantiate this claim. Whelp, time to search on Google Scholar, skim 10 articles, add them all to my Zotero, and then realize it looks absolutely buckwild to have six different sources across five different disciplines from 1998-2021 after the sentence "x is one of the components of settler-colonialism."

Did Someone Mention Zotero?: There's no way I have 600 things saved on Zotero! Surely it isn't a waste of time to scroll through all of them, just to *see* if I actually need them. Oh and while I'm here, let me just insert this chapter's bibliography into a Word document to make sure there's no mistakes. And hmm...is that really how you cite a Congressional Report? Time to Google that for 30 minutes!

Frantically Look Things Up: Do I sound academic enough in this chapter? Is my writing good? Sounds like the perfect opportunity to look up a bunch of dissertation writing craft books!

Open Tumblr or Twitter or Reddit or Youtube or Instagram or Duolingo or ProPublica or Two Dots: Close immediately after feeling immense shame that I'm procrastinating. Wait five minutes. Open again.

#gradblr #phdblr #dissertation #grad school #and what do all these things have in common? the fact that i have adhd lol #ok but granted 3/5 of these technically count as writing #i didn't mention my true distraction habit which is making tracking tools #i'll post about my writing tracker at some point???

[thegirlwiththelilactattoo]

No. 8, or a The Period Company Review

Content Note: This post discusses menstruation and blood.

I've always wanted to be the kind of sustainable menstrual cycle person who can use period cups, but sadly my body isn't set up that way (and pls, no recommendations either. it's really not for me!). I've been using pads consistently since I got my first period at age 10. Pad technology has gotten less diaper-y over time, but they also still just sort of suck and are expensive. However in my own attempt to lessen my usage of plastic and not expose myself to PFAS (which have understudied results), I decided to buy some period underwear. I used this: https://bettergoods.org/best-period-underwear/ guide to decide what products to buy. I’m on a budget, so I ordered from the Period Company and Bambody. I'm only going to review the Period Company for brevity.

Some notes before the review: I tend to have heavy periods that last 7 days. The second-fourth days of my cycle are heavy, so typically I would go through about 3-4 pads during the day and I typically use Always period underwear at night. To alleviate some of the heavy bleeding and cramps, I take ibuprofen as needed. 

What I Bought

Compared to other companies, the Period Company is pretty cheap (and is now being sold at Walmart apparently??). The normal underwear are $9-$12 and the overnight boxer shorts are $24 and $16 for the brief panty style. I purchased the “The High Waisted Period. in Organic Cotton For Heavy Flows” and “The Sleeper Period. in Organic Cotton For Heavy Flows” in black. I bought 3 pairs of the Sleeper Period and 4 pairs of The High Waisted Period, which isn't enough for my cycle, so midway through I ordered some from Bambody to supplement.

The website also offers adaptive underwear, period boxers for daily wear, resuable pads, swim period bottoms, and underwear for people managing incontinence.

The High Waisted Period

I was traveling the first day of my period, so I ended up trying them on Day 2. I ordered the underwear in a XL and did find it a bit tight around the thighs, but not unbearable. Like a pad, the period underwear has a thick pad (for lack of a better word) in the gusset up the back of the underwear, so there’s pretty good coverage. If you don't like the feeling of a pad, these probably aren't for you -- or at least the heavy flow ones because they are a bit thick. The waist is also very high and since the fabric is snug, it did feel like it was cutting into my stomach -- next time I would size up.

I wore the The High Waisted Period from 2:30pm-10:30pm and also took an aspirin. I was actually shocked that there were no leaks and even risked wearing blue jeans so any blood would be visible. And there was none! However on the next day, I wore the High Waisted Period and didn’t take an aspirin, I had a leak at the crease of my thigh and bled through my pants. It was thankfully not super noticeable, but I did feel self-conscious. In hindsight, I probably should have brought a second pair, but since the underwear claims to hold 8-10 tampons worth of blood, I didn’t think it should have been a problem. But, for the next three days that I wore the underwear, there was no leakage. 

The Sleeper Period

My first night wearing of The Sleeper Period was…not great. While the high waisted has some stretch, the boxer has a really weird fit. It's overly tight at the waistband and thigh, so it felt constricting. If I bought these again, I would 100% size up to the 2XL. I spent some time maneuvering it, which probably was a mistake since I bled through it. At the crease of the thigh — same as the underwear, there doesn’t seem to be any absorbent fabric, so leaks seem likely if the flow is heavy enough. Also, The High Waisted never had a wet feeling but the Sleeper felt like I was wearing a wet blanket. I felt really gross so I changed into the overly floral scented, but very reliable Always Period Underwear.

I wore them the following night and didn't adjust them to fit properly at my stomach or thighs and noticed that I didn't experience any bleeding, so again, could be user error.

Cleaning Them

I actually hate the cavalier tone of the Period Company's FAQ page. I genuinely wanted to know care instructions like what temp to wash them at and if it was okay to dry, but instead it's this weird, unhelpful page. Like, do I rinse it with cold water? Should I hang them to dry? Should I wash them on cool? Who knows!

I cleaned them by soaking them in the bucket with a quick rinse under the faucet to clean more underwear/use less water. This may/may not go without saying, but if you use these and other reusable period tools, you will have to interface with your own blood.

I noticed when I rinsed them that the underwear was already showing signs of wear (frayed threads) even before I washed them. After the water ran mostly clear, I hung them to dry in my bathroom and when dry, threw them into my laundry basket. In the laundry, I washed them on warm and hung them to dry.

Overall Thoughts

I liked the Period Company underwear for the most part. My biggest issue is with the Sleep Period, which feel uncomfortable if your flow is heavy and have pretty uncomfortable material even beyond the pad part. If I bought them again, I would size up or opt for the brief style to hopefully avoid the tightness of the fabric. I was also really annoyed with the shipping. It cost $19 to ship, even though I spent 70 bucks (and that was with a discount on the High Waisted Period) on the underwear alone. Absurd. They're now being sold in Walmart, so if I ordered again, I would probably order through Walmart to save some money.

#the period company #menstrual underwear #period underwear review #period products #also not sponsored ofc ??? #period cw #blood cw #menstruation cw #literally what is this blog? #i will return to actual grad school content at some point #but for now ... enjoy <3

[thegirlwiththelilactattoo]

thinking of posts to write (writing/method pt. 2, academic labor, random things i wish i knew before starting grad school

but the next post is gonna be a non-academic random review of period underwear i think)

oh also my ask is open if there’s things people are interested in hearing about

#this is an unnumbered post so is it canonical in the lore of this blog #i don’t think sooo #this is my meta fourth wall breaking I think #phdblr #grad school #misc

[thegirlwiththelilactattoo]

No. 7, or Rejection

Click Bait Title: This she/they took a Bite of a Floating Bagel and You'll Never Believe What Happened Next!

minor spoilers below for Everything, Everywhere, All At Once (but c'mon seriously it won best picture. watch it!)

School has (for the most part) been a space of consistent validation and source of attainable goals I could use to find value in myself. For a very very very long time, my GPA was a reflection of how I thought of myself. Good grades = "wow i'm a worthwhile human being! i'm accomplishing things! i am good!" and Bad grades = depression! shame! a magnitude of other forms of deep despair, self loathing, and low self-esteem! I received external and internal validation from my academic achievements, which has and continues to be, one of the only ways people in my life know how to engage with me.

Like Joy says in Everything Everywhere All At Once. Education was my everything bagel. It was both the source/result of my success. It gave my structure. It ordered my goals and how I thought about my life (and now that I'm almost done with grad school, I oddly have no more plans or goals until academia sets another goalpost for me to pass/achieve). It was how I made most of my friends. Sesame. Poppy seed. Salt. And like Joy it all collapsed "because you see when you really put everything on a bagel, it becomes this. The truth. Nothing matters".

"It" sort of conceals the source of why this all collapsed. There's so many stories of the "why" and "how" that I can't tell because academia thrives on silence. My own delicious cocktail of academic trauma can probably be distilled to one thing: rejection. People always say that the institution will never love you, but starting grad school when I did, I sought to have my affection for the university, the respect I had for people in charge, to be reciprocated. It wasn't. It hurt. After crying for years and wondering why I wasn't good enough to be cared for by professors, peers, and the institution itself, I realized none of it matters. There was nothing I could do that would be good enough or prevent myself from being rejected and abandoned by a system I had made my raison d'etre.

As a method of detachment, this brand of nihilism has been helpful. It helped me to slowly disentangle myself from my internalized elitism and to realize there being a scholar was not more moral or more noble of an occupation. Without seeing the institution as valuable, I was able to see more clearly the everyday, normalized forms of exploitation, extraction, and harm. The pandemic gave me two years of distance and separation from the institution and I was in many ways able to heal. It became easier to stop being as invested in the academy as a fundamental element of myself. I was no longer expected to be present or engaged, I was free to be away.

The impetus of this entire post is that I got another rejection from a national fellowship. It was an application I spent months on and contained feedback that was cruel and demoralizing. It shocked me how much less it hurt than previous rejections. I could see clearly the racism and lack of kindness that shapes so much of academia that has nothing to do with me. I have worked to separate my academic labor and how people engage it from my own value as a person. Instead of crying, I laughed.

#gradblr #phdblr #grad school #academia #rejection #did i use the nihilism correctly ??? who can say! #eeaao

[thegirlwiththelilactattoo]

No. 6.5, or Notes on a Writing Process

After my last somewhat frantic post, No. 6, or A Writing Process, I did a bunch of Googling and found some other links that look pretty helpful for the diss writing process from various academic blogs. As someone feeling very anxious about the quality of my writing, these blog posts have been very comforting in providing strategies for revision that address issues of clarity and voices.

I'm definitely going to be returning to these once I finish my zero draft. I hope you find them useful.

Reverse Outline

https://explorationsofstyle.com/2011/02/09/reverse-outlines/

Revising

https://doctoralwriting.wordpress.com/2021/06/03/taming-the-baggy-thesis-monster-or-how-to-tighten-up-your-writing/#more-2901

https://explorationsofstyle.com/2011/01/19/committing-to-extensive-revision/

https://explorationsofstyle.com/2011/03/30/scaffolding-phrases/

Roadmap/Signposting [Structure]

https://patthomson.net/2011/09/18/signposting-your-journal-articles-and-chapters/

https://patthomson.net/2012/12/07/writing-a-road-map-christmas-present-one/

https://explorationsofstyle.com/2017/01/31/metadiscourse/

https://explorationsofstyle.com/2011/09/01/signposting-and-metadiscourse/

https://explorationsofstyle.com/2013/01/22/introductions/

https://patthomson.net/2011/07/10/create-a-research-space/

https://patthomson.net/2014/06/09/aims-and-objectives-whats-the-difference/

https://patthomson.net/2011/07/11/writing-skeletons/

https://patthomson.net/2014/07/07/explaining-and-justifying-the-use-of-theory-via-a-sentence-skeleton/

Voice

https://patthomson.net/2013/09/26/voice-and-the-craft-of-academic-writing/

https://patthomson.net/2021/04/19/making-your-writing-authoritative-a-citation-revision-strategy/

https://patthomson.net/2013/07/22/making-authoritative-claims/

https://patthomson.net/2015/06/08/exorcising-the-inner-doctoral-student/

https://patthomson.net/2017/09/11/avoiding-the-laundry-list-literature-review/

https://explorationsofstyle.com/2013/03/20/academic-writer-as-an-identity/

#gradblr #phdblr #dissertation #academic writing #link dump #writing advice #running away is easy it's the writing that hard #meta to my previous post brought to you by anxious googling at 3am as a sense of panic overwhelmed my nervous system #finally living the dream and using half numbers to refer to my own posts #can't wait to write for no 6.75 maybe i'll call it reflections on notes on a writing process 2 electric boogaloo #if anyone reads these tags sorry for the novel i'm writing