Alys May-James BA Professional Practice Blog

When doing any piece of writing or work it is important to reference where the information you are writing about is coming from. This includes but not limited to, any kinds of essays or reports, books, articles, podcasts, pieces of art, videos and blog posts. Sometimes I have read something and been inspired to write something from it, and so I need to make sure that I state the original source of where I got my inspiration. If you are talking about someone’s idea, but aren’t using quotes, it is still important to reference them. A great site to use is: https://www.citethemrightonline.com/ It explains clearly how to reference the many different styles of sources. It shows you how to cite sources in your piece of writing and in the bibliography.   This is an example of using a quote from a book; Montagu (1986) explains that touch is referred to as ‘the mother of the senses.’ (pg. 3) Bibliography Montagu A. (1986), Touching- The human Significance of the skin, third edi...

This week I attended a skype session with guest speaker, Peter Thomas. The main focus of the meeting was to explore academic writing. 'writing is utter solitude, the decent into the cold abyss of oneself.' Franz Kafka  Firstly, he got us to experience ‘free writing’. This is where you write continuously about a specific topic for a set amount of time. This method has a number of components to remember; ·          Write in sentences ·          Don’t stop writing in the time period as this helps generate a flow of thought ·          If you don’t know what to write, you can write ‘I don’t know what to write,’ until something comes into your head that is relevant to the topic. ·          Correct language isn’t important ·          Don’t read what you have written until the end. ...