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• joanne.edmondston wrote a new post, Urban Myths surrounding Thesis as a Series of Papers: PG Writing Group 14/05/12, on the site PG Writing Group 2 days, 17 hours ago

  PG Writing Group 14/05/12 Social Science South Rm 2204 Monday 12-1pm

  Wikipedia defines an urban myth as ‘form of modern folklore consisting of stories that may or may not have been believed by their tellers to […]

• joanne.edmondston wrote a new post, One-size-fits-all advice for paragraphs? PG Writing Group 07/05/12, on the site PG Writing Group 1 week, 5 days ago

   PG Writing Group 07/05/12 Social Science South Rm 2204 Monday 12-1pm

  The Bulwer-Lytton Literary Parody Contest awards a prize each year to the most deliberately terrible opening paragraphs to novels. It was […]

• joanne.edmondston wrote a new post, Thinking of Writing as Thinking: PG Writing Group 30/04/12, on the site PG Writing Group 2 weeks, 2 days ago

   PG Writing Group 13/02/12 Social Science South Rm 2204 Monday 12-1pm

  How many times have you thought you have everything crystal clear in your head only to find when you finally get the time and inspiration to […]

• Event wrote a new post, I Can Change Your Mind About Climate, on the site Events 2 weeks, 6 days ago

• David Glance wrote a new post, Google Drive – What’s Yours is Mine, on the site Tech Social 3 weeks ago

  

  Ok, so Google doesn’t own files that you upload to Google Docs as people have slightly freaking out about. The key thing however is that people (Journalists) are confusing  ownership of the content uploaded to […]

• joanne.edmondston wrote a new post, Block your internal editor & unblock your writing using freewriting: PG Writing Group 23/04/12, on the site PG Writing Group 3 weeks ago

  PG Writing Group 23/04/12 Social Science South Rm 2204 Monday 12-1pm

  At some point in research studies, most students hit a wall when trying to write.  And that’s probably because some of the most common […]

• joanne.edmondston wrote a new post, Pitfalls of Poor Punctuation: PG Writing Group 12/03/12 , on the site PG Writing Group 1 month, 2 weeks ago

  PG Writing Group 26/03/12 Social Science South Rm 2204 Monday 12-1pm

  There is the odd writer who gets away with ignoring the rules of punctuation and is seen as a genius. Have a read of e.e cummings poems – I can highly recommend them. But for the vast majority of us, incorrect punctuation is seen as sloppiness rather than brilliance, and…[Read more]

• Andrew Rate wrote a new post, New article in Chemical Geology, on the site dissolution 1 month, 3 weeks ago

  Another new article from our group, one forming part of Bree Morgan’s PhD thesis:

  Morgan, B., Rate, A.W., Burton, E.D., Smirk, M. 2012. Enrichment and fractionation of rare earth elements in FeS- and organic-rich estuarine sediments receiving acid sulfate soil drainage. Chemical Geology doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2012.03.012.
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  An…[Read more]

• tcatuwa wrote a new post, Viral video, gone bad: Kony 2012 and the perils of social media, on the site The Conversation At UWA 1 month, 3 weeks ago

  Associate Professor David Glance
  There have been enough social media disasters of late to make one thing clear: manipulating sentiment through social networks is next to impossible.

  The McDonald’s #McDStories campaign in January was supposed to allow the public to share fond memories of eating at McDonald’s. Instead, responses quickly…[Read more]

• joanne.edmondston wrote a new post, Lighting the Way with a Topic Sentence: PG Writing Group 20/03/12, on the site PG Writing Group 2 months ago

   PG Writing Group 20/02/12 Social Science South Rm 2204 Monday 12-1pm

  Gopen and Swan, wrote a complex but insightful article for the Scientific American in 2009 which focussed on The Science of Scientific Writing. Much of what is said in this article is relevant to all academic writers, although non-scientists may find the science examples…[Read more]