Day One

So that was the two day WAP course. Writing For Academic Publication.

This is the deal. I'm going to write my Beckham chapter properly, in a clear academic style. I'm going to find a way of merging my natural style with its new academic environment. I'm going to find a way of burying my suspicions and my cynicism about academic writing and I'm going to create an acceptable hybrid. Something that does all the quoting other people stuff with a zip and (hopefully) a style. Something we all like.

So what did I learn? I found out lots of things about structure, about how to look for information, how to access Google Scholar. I learnt about helps and hindrances and about the fishbone model.

I learnt that sometimes good enough is good enough.

I learnt that it's a PhD, not a Nobel Prize.

My favourite quote of the two days: "I don't fictionalise about vampires".

I learnt the correct structure for the content of my piece.

What we learnt was this:
Title
Abstract
Introduction
Theoretical Perspectives/Literary Review
Methodology and Methods
Results/Findings/Data
Conclusion/Summary/Recommendations
Appendices/Statistics/Illustrations
References

But all I wanted to see was this:
Title
Glass of red
Write
Glass of red

That's my kind of theoretical perspective. Actually, that's my method. And there's nothing abstract about that.