The critical distance break
Sometimes I realise that an important idea I’ve been talking about, almost since the beginning of the blog, has never had a post of it’s
Sometimes I realise that an important idea I’ve been talking about, almost since the beginning of the blog, has never had a post of it’s
Are you over video calls? Are email and quick messages too distanced? Is it currently difficult or impossible for you to catch up with colleagues
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
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
I know most of my blog is about academic writing for theses, books and journal articles, but there is another form of academic writing that
I’ve mentioned ‘done lists‘ before, but as it’s the beginning of the year, I thought it was time to remind you about them. In January,
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
I’ve addressed some of these questions before, particularly in Building your thesis on the corpses of your enemies and in my post on Effective Signposting. But I
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
Normally, we think of the process of writing a thesis as a process of ‘writing up’. That is, you do it after your research is
