Comments on: Blog-sized lit reviews http://www.academicproductivity.com/2009/blog-sized-lit-reviews/ A survival guide for the 21st century researcher Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:37:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jeromy Anglim http://www.academicproductivity.com/2009/blog-sized-lit-reviews/comment-page-1/#comment-101079 Jeromy Anglim Wed, 23 Dec 2009 03:15:00 +0000 http://www.academicproductivity.com/?p=1484#comment-101079 I agree. Blogging and doing research are a great mix. I'd like to see more PhD students making their preliminary literature reviews and ideas available in a blog format. On the positive: * it gets researchers thinking about audience from an early stage * it gets researchers thinking about writing quality and structure from an early stage * It gets the ideas out there for others to benefit on the negative * if the ideas are still developing, it may be intimidating, and researchers may want to be able to change their mind while the ideas are still evolving. * there may be concerns about prior publication if the words are going to be copy and pasted into theses or journal articles. I agree. Blogging and doing research are a great mix. I’d like to see more PhD students making their preliminary literature reviews and ideas available in a blog format.

On the positive:
* it gets researchers thinking about audience from an early stage
* it gets researchers thinking about writing quality and structure from an early stage
* It gets the ideas out there for others to benefit

on the negative
* if the ideas are still developing, it may be intimidating, and researchers may want to be able to change their mind while the ideas are still evolving.
* there may be concerns about prior publication if the words are going to be copy and pasted into theses or journal articles.

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