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This is a guest post written by Dr Rachel Lehner-Mear. She has recently published a book reporting her doctoral research on mothers and primary school homework.

There’s nothing quite like holding your first book in your hands. The...

Coherence in research design is not the same as coherence in academic writing, although the two are related.

Research design coherence is sometimes described through the metaphor of a red thread, one continuous line...

Gratuitous pic of my dog Ted.

A coherent piece of writing is one where the parts connect to the whole. That sounds obvious, but it can be difficult to achieve. That’s partly because the whole is surprisingly easy to lose sight of, especially in long texts where the writing happens across days or weeks or months. The whole is never entirely visible at the same time.

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I’ve just read a paper about epistemic placemaking. Epistemic placemaking is equipping and arranging places for knowledge work. The paper suggests that students might actively co-design t...