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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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August 19, 2010

In memory of Maria Cugnetto

Today I received some sad news that Maria Cugnetto, one of our PhD students here at RMIT had passed away. We are all diminished by her loss. I always enjoyed her company and wish I had time to get to know her better. This obituary is written by Angela Di Pasquale, another RMIT PhD student,continue reading.

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August 16, 2010

What are you learning while you do your PhD? (maybe not what you expected!)

You might be learning all kinds of unexpected things while doing your PhD – some of these ‘other’ things might help you get a job later on.

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August 9, 2010

PhD rage

This is a picture of one of the rather nice glass doors in my apartment. If you look closely you will notice there’s a big crack in it, right next to the handle. I blame this crack on Chapter five of my PhD. To this day I don’t know how it happened, but I managedcontinue reading.

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August 4, 2010

Voices from the front line

Our first PhD student piece – professional brain?

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July 27, 2010

Reading like a writer

Inger finds herself at home and highly medicated

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July 21, 2010

The goldilocks dilemma

When I was hunting through my reader request pile I found this email from @thetokenlefty asking about writing for different  audiences: I had a quick question for you about this 5,000 word literature review I have to write for my methods course.  It is going to be read and marked by people like yourself —continue reading.

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July 15, 2010

The ‘It’s Time’ talk

This one is about a complex supervisor / student relationship issue: what happens if you think your thesis is ready to submit but your supervisor doesn’t?

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July 2, 2010

Back soon…

The thesis whisperer is on a short vacation: returning on the 15th of July. Any topic suggestions can be left in comments or direct message on twitter @thesiswhisperer.

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July 1, 2010

how to sell your thesis in 3 minutes (or less)

So you want to tell Aunt Betty what your thesis is about? Here’s how.

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June 29, 2010

In praise of the humble whiteboard

One way a humble whiteboard can help you think more clearly about your research

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