Ten things I’ve learned about learning a new skill (especially if you are rubbish at it to start with)
When you start a PhD, you are doing something you’ve been practicing for a long time, studying, and you’ve shown you are really good
When you start a PhD, you are doing something you’ve been practicing for a long time, studying, and you’ve shown you are really good
Often candidates and researchers come to talk to me when they are trying to get back into academic writing after a long break. That break
Students who don’t speak English as their first language are often very worried about writing an 80-100,000 word thesis. And many supervisors are also worried
Usually I keep my to-do lists as handwritten scrawls, as marginalia, as a schedule in my calendar, or I remember it. Once I’m in a
One of the things all researchers have to face is, occasionally, a difficult meeting. It might be a meeting with your supervisor where you haven’t produced
‘Binge writing’ is a common term, which I see used globally by people talking about why it’s better to write a small amount every day. But we need a more inclusive way to talk about intense and fulfilling writing time.
On this blog, and in programs I’m involved in like Thesis Boot Camp and Shut Up and Write, we frequently recommend just getting out a
In 2013, I wrote one of my most significant early posts on this blog, The Perfect Sentence Vortex and How to Escape It. That post
In 2012, I wrote a post for The Thesis Whisperer blog on the Cornell Method of note taking and how effective I thought it was.
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