Writing advice for PhD students. Part 4
This is the final part of a mini series on writing advice for PhD students. The tips here aren’t all directly related but mostly, they are about timing. In part 1 I shared some...
How to Academia - A blog on academic selfhelp
This is the final part of a mini series on writing advice for PhD students. The tips here aren’t all directly related but mostly, they are about timing. In part 1 I shared some...
In this series of blog posts (part 1 and part 2), I summarize what writing advice I would recommend my younger self. Although I’m not fully sure nobody ever told me this stuff but...
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...
I’m currently travelling for a teaching gig and just had this epiphany (which ultimately was a long time in the making, I guess). The PhD phase is the most un-zen thing you will ever...
You all may remember my posts from last year on the topic “Diss-cembering” – a word play on “Dissertation” and “December” (How to Diss-cember and Diss-cembering to the End). In December 2019 I finished...
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...
Can you believe it? We are celebrating out 1st anniversary! We are not that sure when we made out first online apperance, because our blog here, our Twitter account and our Instagram account show...
You may have seen our recent posts and you may have noticed our emphasis on all the stuff of academia that can scare the hell out of us – failing, how to get a...
Today I want to talk about motivation and the last long days of corrections, revisions and re-writing of your thesis or dissertation. When I first stumbled on the #100daysofdissertationchallenge on Instagram, I thought about...
Okay, I am actually feeling like Frodo, except for not standing on Mount Doom and being totally wrecked by an evil power. I am actually feeling like Frodo, sitting at my desk, enjoying some...
This is it. This is the last month of my intensive writing bootcamp to finish my dissertation. That was the reason why you have not seen any posts from me recently… I was busy....
Since I am trying to work myself into the use of programming with R and accomplishing my data analysis with this tool, I have struggled more than one time with the way of thinking...