The University of Otago LibGuides recommends…
The University of Otago LibGuides recommends… these resources for “Managing your literature”, two of them from this blog. You know how to manage your references,
The University of Otago LibGuides recommends… these resources for “Managing your literature”, two of them from this blog. You know how to manage your references,
Here is some advice I recently gave a doctoral candidate. They had just had a draft of their introduction chapter torn to shreds by their
How often does this happen? You spend three weeks crafting a draft, editing it, polishing it, explaining what you mean. You hand it in to
In the last few weeks, things capital-c-Changed. So welcome to the jam-packed blog-of-all-things. It’s long. Also, this is a pretty emotional and momentous post, so
We all have them–those terrible sentences. The great, gnarled, nasty, tangled, incomprehensible, half-a-paragraph-long sentences. I certainly do. And today, I’m going to tell you 3
Okay, to start with—now, today—perfectionism might be your biggest problem. It won’t let you finish anything. It prevents you from starting anything. You can’t
At the recent Thesis Boot Camp, I discovered that a lot of people were reluctant to write generatively because they weren’t good at drafting. They
In my post on why Procrastination is not your fault, I suggested that If you are a professional musician, a nano-microbiologist, a civil engineer, a
Okay, so this post is perhaps a bit more Kill Bill than Thesis Whisperer, but this has been coming up a lot recently in conversations
This post is for anyone who saw the Writing Cycle posts and thought–hmmmm, but what happens when I have to rewrite? what about gaps that
