By Patrick Dunleavy, posted on: https://medium.com/@write4research/how-to-write-a-blogpost-from-your-journal-article-6511a3837caa

How to write a blogpost from your journal article

One of the oddest things that people in academic life regularly say to me is: ‘I’m not paid to write blogposts, only research articles. If my department or the grant-funder wants to start paying me for doing posts, then that would be a different matter’. Or alternatively, the argument goes: ‘I just don’t have the time to do blogging’. Or finally, the clinching rebuttal is: ‘Your blogpost just won’t get cited, and in today’s research environment, only citations count’

Apparently then a lot of folk suffer from some serious misconceptions about what writing a post entails…..

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