How do you get from “pre-research” to search, and then research?
Last time I posted about “pre-research”, I talked about moving from pre-research into searching and then researching for a literature review. I said: Finally, I would go
Last time I posted about “pre-research”, I talked about moving from pre-research into searching and then researching for a literature review. I said: Finally, I would go
I am currently working on three book projects with three different teams, and that has led me to think carefully about how to be a
Research Degree Insiders doesn’t normally do guest posts, but this was a special exception. While I have worked in jobs across the university sector, academic
We all know academic writing “shouldn’t quote Wikipedia”… but what we often get wrong is why it’s not ‘the done thing’. The real reason isn’t
Your progress might feel slow, but that might just be the normal speed of trying to learn new things, or experimenting (and often failing) to find new
Western logical structures, which developed from the Ancient Greeks and were then developed by the Church Fathers and Enlightenment philosophers, tend to be what we
It’s the beginning of the year, and some of you are heading back to work already. I certainly am. Not only is it a new
If someone who has made it to university and cares about their studies is making a persistent error that most students can avoid, it suggests a systemic glitch.
Each revision, taking on board questions and concerns and advice and changes, takes my work a little bit away from me. For me, this is a good thing! Unlike this blog post, which I wrote, editing and published myself (hence the fact that there are often typos!), academic writing for publication has been read and commented on and changed by multiple people over multiple stages. The article or book goes from being ‘my’ work, to being, in some way, ‘our’ work.
I cannot believe, after all my to-do list and planning your time blog posts, I’ve never actually talked about how to break down a big project, set goals and then plan to meet them: an essential aspect of doing a PhD thesis… Partly because when we teach this in a workshop we know there is so much diversity in the ways that different people achieve the same outcome
