How many drafts should you write?
There are no right answers here, but the true answer to the question ‘how many drafts should I expect to write’ is ‘probably more than
There are no right answers here, but the true answer to the question ‘how many drafts should I expect to write’ is ‘probably more than
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
By the time your academic writing is ready to be published, it’s a tough nut, a rose hip, a thick-skinned firm grapefruit. It’s ready to
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I’m currently setting up a Learning Hub for La Trobe to bring together all the learning support across 6 campuses, and then doing the same
Subjectively, the final stages of a writing project often feel the most ‘stuck’, boring and slow. Why is that, when objectively they are often the opposite?
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
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
A post drawn from our new book was published on the Thesis Whisperer blog a fortnight ago. If you want to sign up to find
Is your work ‘interdisciplinary’? (Or maybe it is ‘cross-disciplinary’ or ‘multi-disciplinary’.) Or is the purpose of your work to take insights from one way of
