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The uneven U

Publishers often send me academic writing books to review. I happily look through every book, but if I think I can’t wholeheartedly recommend it, I just don’t write a review. I don’t want to crush a fellow author’s soul. The rejected titles sit sadly, in small piles of guilt, on the bottom of one of ...continue reading.

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March 24, 2011

How to write 1000 words a day (and not go bat shit crazy)

Once I had to write 60,000 words in 3 months. This is how I did it. It’s not pretty, but it worked.

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March 22, 2011

Living Happily Ever After (aka Maintaining a Good Student / Supervisor Relationship)

In my last post I wrote about what to do if you need an academic divorce during your PhD. This time I am considering the flip side of the argument: maintaining a successful student / supervisor relationship. After my ‘divorce’ was finalised my secondary supervisor took over and we began the process of rebuilding andcontinue reading.

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March 17, 2011

Zotero vs Endnote 4: the battle is on!

This guest post is by Gabriel Oguda, who is studying for an MPhil in Health Promotion at the University of Bergen in Norway. Gabriel makes a convincing case for exploring other options when it comes to bibliographic software.

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March 15, 2011

How to tell your supervisor you want a divorce

This week’s guest post comes from Dr Sarah-Louise Quinnell, who gained her PhD from the Geography Department at King’s College London in 2010. Here Sarah talks about the delicate matter of ‘supervisory divorce’.

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March 10, 2011

Some light(er) reading

A round up of some interesting reading which might help improve your writing as well

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March 8, 2011

reading like a mongrel

In this post I hone in on the first problem almost every PhD student confronts – how to make sense of all that information out there…

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March 3, 2011

Developing your inner Yoda, er – scholar

In which I argue that your inner scholar is a bit like Yoda. Yes, really.

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March 1, 2011

A Thesis Without Words, or “where is my mug?”

In this post Anitra Nottingham, twin sister of Inger, explains the fundamental dilemma of the practice based thesis.

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February 22, 2011

Finishing with perspective (and without finding Oz)

This guest post is written by Elizabeth Humphrys, who has recently completed her Masters Thesis. Her day job is investigating student complaints and misconduct at a public university. Here Elizabeth shares her thoughts on the feelings she experienced just before submitting. I submitted my Masters thesis in October 2010. I recently received the examiners’ reportscontinue reading.

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February 17, 2011

5 ways to fail your PhD

In which I turn around an old favourite of mine to make a list of don’ts

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