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Struggling with the word limit? Follow Churchill’s advice on brevity
One of the most common complaints from students approaching the end of a piece of written work is that they simply can’t do justice to the question within the permitted word limit. This is as true for 10,000 word dissertations … Continue reading
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Writers on writing: Robert Caro
Robert Caro is an American journalist and historian most famous for his multi-volume biography of the US President, Lyndon Johnson. As a journalist accustomed to working to producing pithy copy to tight deadlines, and a biographer whose monumental studies are … Continue reading
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Writers on writing: J.K. Rowling
I liked this short, but helpful, advice from J.K. Rowling, who knows a thing or two about writing, in response to a desperate tweet from a student struggling with a dissertation.
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The secret to writing
I’ve written before about Oliver Burkeman’s Guardian column, ‘This column will save your life’. In another recent column Burkeman addressed the challenge of dealing with writer’s block. As usual Burkeman draws on a fabled self-help guide, in this case Robert Boice’s, How … Continue reading
Writers on writing: Stephen King
I’ve just finished reading Stephen King’s, On Writing: a memoir of the craft. It is part memoir and part guide book for the aspiring writer. I have observed in the past that while, one hopes, there may be significant differences between what goes into a work of … Continue reading
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