Writing advice for PhD students. Part 2
This is part two of all the things I’d recommend you take into account if you’re (relatively) new to writing in the context of bigger academic writing projects. Part 1 mainly recommended useful books....
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This is part two of all the things I’d recommend you take into account if you’re (relatively) new to writing in the context of bigger academic writing projects. Part 1 mainly recommended useful books....
Today, I want to share some tips for anybody at the beginning of writing a PhD thesis or any substantial thesis, but lacking experience. How to juggle multiple writing projects at once? Don’t I...
Here’s my review of Paul J. Silvia, How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing (APA LifeTools). I loved it so much that I listened to the audiobook three times...
You probably noticed that sometimes, writing is hard. Maybe it’s always hard for you. Or maybe you’re suffering from a writing stall. As it often happens, I started formulating my book review for Joli...
I spent the weekend meditating at a silent retreat and had a big insight during a work meditation session (where you attempt to do household chores with awareness) that I wanted to share with...
In this post, you will learn how to energise and condense your writing according to Joshua Schimel’s Writing Science. His advice really isn’t secret or particularly mind-blowing but I’m making all those mistakes on...
This post is basically my academic writing walk of shame, because – really, guys, I am embarrassed to tell you this – but, okay… I must confess: I have a summer writing to-do-list, like...
So, there was a time, some years ago – I was part of the studies representatives in Archaeology, and one task of this job was student counseling before the new winter semester was about...
You might have seen it before – November came and suddenly all social media is happy and full with #movember, #nanowrimo and #acwrimo, the latter meaning Academic Writing Month. So, another challenge, it may...
What actions are meant by the term “academic writing”? Just the actual writing aka you hit the keyboard fiercely and the whole thing sounds like machine-gun fire? Or is it reading, lit review, crying...
We all know about its existence. We fear it. We are called to arms against all the odds never in our favor, when it comes to Peer Review and facing the comments of our...
I have to apologize, because I totally forgot to post this entry yesterday. I am on holiday right now and during the weekend I tried to relax and chill. I was really good at...
Maybe you stopped by because of my title: Positive Procrastination? Sounds challenging, right? Everybody of us has experienced the powers of procrastination (I really like the Wikipedia entry on it), in all its ways,...
In a desperate attempt to become more productive at PhD writing, I created a template for making outlines for academic articles. It is supposed to guide you through the process but also make sure...
So, I did it. I finished my challenge of 100 days of dissertation on Friday. I wrote about the idea for this challenge here in this post. You can see all my steps on...