New to the Thesis Whisperer? Welcome!
The Thesis Whisperer was launched in June 2010 and now contains more than half a million words. Over the years there have been over 8 million visitors to the blog, from all over the world. People have made more than 16,000 comments on well over 500 posts.
In other words, the Thesis Whisperer is Big! If you’re new to the blog, the sheer number of posts can be daunting. This page contains a list of some of my favourite posts over the years. There are better versions of a couple of these posts in my book “How to be an Academic”
If you find these posts useful, you can read about how to support the Thesis Whisperer here.
Enjoy!
Productivity
How to write 1000 words a day (and not go bat shit crazy)
How to write 10,000 words a day (yes, you read that right)
A visit from the procrastination fairy
How to stop ‘flipping’ and write a good ‘to do’ list
General writing advice
Academic writing is like a painful, upper middle-class dinner party
Why does feedback hurt sometimes?
5 ways to declutter your writing
Advice on the dissertation
The difficult discussion chapter
How do I start my discussion chapter?
How to be a literature searching Ninja
Five ways to tame the literature dragon
The dead hand of the thesis genre?
What font should I choose for my dissertation?
Choosing examiners for your thesis
Do you really believe what you are writing?
Five ways to know you have the right thesis topic
Doing your thesis amendments without losing heart (or your mind)
Dealing with Academia
Academic assholes and the circle of niceness
How to complain – and be heard
Five ways to look more clever than you actually are
Is doing a PhD like being in a reality TV show?
Presenting and publishing
Confirmation – not as big a deal as you think?
The importance of being interesting
This is not just a post about Instagram
Five classic research presentation mistakes
How to sell your thesis in three minutes
Employability
What do academic employers want?
I want to leave academia – what’s next?
Working with your supervisor
Mum and Dad are fighting, what should I do?
How to tell your supervisor you want a divorce
The Tyranny of the Awesome Supervisor
And finally, because no one ever gets this far back, here is the first ever post!
How is research writing different from driving a car?
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