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Research Exchange - PhD Life » How to write your thesis
4y ago
It’s Friday night and you’re alone again… in your room, staring at the same words on the computer screen that you’ve seen for the past three years staring straight back at you. It doesn’t feel great, but you know you can’t escape this. Jenny Mak offers some quick hacks to hopefully make the isolating phases ..read more
Research Exchange - PhD Life » How to write your thesis
4y ago
In part two of this series, Sophie Shorland outlines some of the biggest stylistic mistakes you might be making in your writing. Here’s how to avoid these and ensure your thesis does its job of communicating your original ideas with style! If you haven’t already yet, I’d highly recommend reading part one of this series ..read more
Research Exchange - PhD Life » How to write your thesis
4y ago
Ever feel stuck in a maze of artfully-constructed sentences while writing your thesis? In part one of this two part series, Sophie Shorland discusses the importance of using your own style guide whilst writing – and sticking to it! Part of a PhD is communicating complex, original concepts. You don’t, therefore, want your writing to ..read more
Research Exchange - PhD Life » How to write your thesis
4y ago
While PhD writing is typically thought of as an individual endeavour, writing alone does not mean it has to be lonely. In this week’s PhD Life post, Aya Nassar discusses how she makes writing alone work for her… In my previous post, I wrote about how approaching writing as a collective practice might help bridge ..read more
Research Exchange - PhD Life » How to write your thesis
4y ago
“How is your writing going?” – this might be the question you dread to hear. You might have promised your supervisor to send a draft of a chapter, and now after several weeks or months there is still not much to show for it. This week on PhD Life, Olga Degtyareva tells science students how ..read more
Research Exchange - PhD Life » How to write your thesis
4y ago
Feeling stuck with your writing without the luxury to wait for inspiration is very common. Following up from last week’s blog post, Aya Nassar proposes writing together in groups… A lot of advice on writing tells us to write every day, or to block time in the calendar for writing. The rationale is that writing ..read more
Research Exchange - PhD Life » How to write your thesis
4y ago
A lot of writing advice tends to shift between write-when-inspired and write every day. In this blog post, Aya Nassar suggests that maybe we do not really need to choose... It has been a while since my last two blog posts ‘Becoming kind to your writing’ and ‘Becoming kind to other’s writing’. In these I ..read more
Research Exchange - PhD Life » How to write your thesis
4y ago
Editing the thesis can seem like a daunting task, and it’s easy to get trapped by perfectionism. For science students, there’s a huge amount of work to do at the end, while arts students often edit continually. Whatever stage you’re at, Sophie Shorland has some ideas to ease you through the editing process… We’ve all been ..read more
Research Exchange - PhD Life » How to write your thesis
4y ago
To be kind to your writing, you can practice by also learning to be kind to others’ writing. In this post Aya Nassar reflects on how a different approach to reading texts could help with your academic writing… In my previous post, I wrote about how being kind to your writing might help in ..read more
Research Exchange - PhD Life » How to write your thesis
4y ago
This post is about one of the key strategies I’ve put into practice this year: finding the best work space based on the task at hand. By limiting the work that I do to a specific place, I have purpose in each session and less multi-tasking distractions… First, a caveat: I recognise that not ..read more