back on the chain gang

I haven't blogged for a long time. In fact, this is the biggest break I've ever taken from the blog. It wasn't intended - somehow time just slipped away. I thought to blog today because I'm just about to start work on a revision of an article that I had submitted to a journal at the end of last year.

I have been asked to give specific attention to the comments of one reviewer and to address these specifically in my revisions. So this morning I printed out those comments which are indeed very thorough. I could feel my heart sinking a little as I read through - not because they are unkind or difficult but because they substantial and the revisions will take a fair bit of work.

For me this is the hardest part of writing. It is one thing to revise one's own draft and quite another to work on revisions based on the feedback of another. I can already tell that some points will be challenging for me to address. For example, the reviewer makes the comment that the transcripts are difficult to read for a non-specialist reader. So, wha tdo I do about that. One solution is to take out a lot of the symbols and to note somewhere that while Jefferson notation as employed in the transcripts that were analysed, the transcripts used in the article have been modified for an audience potentially unused to Jefferson notation.

Well that was easy! I knew it was a good idea to blog.