Hi!
© 2021 By João Falcão .
About me
_Patricia, woman, sister, curious and courageous.
I was born Brazilian, but have remade myself in many geographies. The most recent one made me cross the Atlantic and take root in Lisbon, the land of fado, tiles, Tagus.
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_My likes:
the sea, chatting, food, dancing, cats, and books.
_And I really like writing, an old habit that flourished scientifically with a PhD in comparative literature and among nourishing poems by Walt Whitman, the writer of Leaves of Grass.
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_Nutrition that led me to create "Turning the page", the concept behind this website, a tool, and a scientific writing training mirrored in the adaptability of plants and in the power, strength, and resilience of roots.
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Kind words about what I nurture
"Turning the Page" is about concrete and practical things that throughout my training I had never had the opportunity to learn and that I could finally understand here. An example of this is how to start an introduction? What is the dimension and proportion of each part of the work? How do I attract readers' attention? How can I read so many documents at the same time? How do I not get distracted?
The peculiarity was also the balance in terms of content/theoretical aspects and practical application/interactive experiences. I was, as in any other online training, “hooked” to the computer, focused, because the strategies used were exciting, aroused interest, and required constant attention (from games, videos, images, group work).
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Marta Assunção
PhD student in Nursing,
Catholic University
Patrícia Anzini's writing, proofreading, and editing training, as well as commenting/reviewing on the text, are extremely valuable and deeply enriching for those who make academic writing their craft. In my case, they allowed me to gain enormous confidence in my ability to write, in addition to equipping me with a set of techniques that contributed to giving greater scientific and literary quality to my texts. I was finally proud of my writing, and now I want to share and make what I write available for reading.
I have also brought all this knowledge to my mentoring role of master's and doctoral students at the university, thus being able to share and permanently update this creative and scientific source that animates my writing and that only with Patrícia I discovered, throughout my academic career of nearly two decades.
Catarina Valdigem
Researcher and Lecturer,
Catholic University
"With great generosity and humor, Patrícia reveals multiple perspectives on how to think about and make writing happen: how to turn the page, therefore.
There are many tools and resources that she shares and that we can use to manage time and anxieties. They are the rules of various games that she makes known to us so that we can follow or circumvent them. In the feedback groups, we train our listening and feedback skills: we point out the weaknesses of the texts without pointing the finger at the people who write them. From this exercise of care, of reciprocal motivation, there are affinities that emerge and relationships that endure.
We don't turn the page all at once. The gerund is important: turning. The path can be longer or shorter, but with Patricia's company it is certainly less painful and much more joyful."
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Ana Dinger
Doctoral Student in Cultural Studies, Catholic University
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