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Category Archives: Writing
Time Management I: The Pomodoro Technique
An apple a day keeps the doctor away…but are there any benefits to a daily handful of tomatoes? Most PhD students will quickly discover new depths of the human tendency towards procrastination. We develop an irrational compulsion to immediately complete … Read More
The Overactive Imagination of a Doctoral Researcher
If Google gobbles up your search terms and spits you out at a site called ‘Real Life PhD Student’, chances are you’re a) considering a PhD and want to know what it’s really like, or b) already doing a PhD, … Read More
Why Study for a PhD?
Wanting to be titled ‘Dr’ is not a good enough reason for becoming a PhD student. Nor is it a good reason to do a PhD because you hate your current job or cannot get a job. Doing a PhD is hard work, a long … Read More
Tagged: PhD, PhD help, PhD student, starting a phd, why do a phd
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Abstracts
Abstracts are important. Recently my co-authors and I submitted a paper which we were all pleased with from a technical point of view. However, one of my co-authors was adamant (and rightly so) that we need to polish the abstract … Read More
Tagged: abstracts, Academic writing, template
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It ain’t over till it’s over
Yogi Berra was baseball coach who is well known for his interesting quotations. One of the most well known sayings attributed to him is ‘It ain’t over till it’s over’. Similar kinds of phrases have been used by countless other … Read More
Tagged: PhD, Viva
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PhD Proposals
I got an email from a student who wanted guidance about how to approach some one within a department for a Phd placement under him/her. As I had studied previously at the same university, I felt obliged to send a … Read More
Tagged: PhD, research proposal
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PhD Dissertation
Prof. Douglas E. Comer has some excellent advice about dissertation writing. He has also precisely stated the requirements of a dissertation: A PhD dissertation is a lengthy, formal document that argues in defense of a particular thesis…Two important adjectives used … Read More
