The hero argument
To make your writing as engaging and convincing as possible, it’s worth giving the counter-argument sufficient space and understanding.
Who is the protagonist?
Deciding who is the protagonist helps you tell your story with greatest impact.
Pictures make words
Max Adams During workshops with undergraduate, graduate or doctoral students, I use images – anything from films to works of art – to help them to develop their sense of story and visualise its shape. In great art, as in…
Where’s the conflict?
Identifying opposing elements in your work can expose underlying conflicts and reveal potential themes.
The role of the protagonist
One of the most successful tools for doctoral students is to envisage the role and nature of the protagonist: that is to say, the character (or discipline; or theory; or interpretive paradigm) that undergoes the most profound change during the course of the work.
