Look, the true answer is ‘probably not’. I’m not being discouraging here, I’m talking about cold hard maths. Here are 10 … More
Tag: completion
Sending your thesis (or book) out into the world
The moment you send a book out into the world can be full of emotions. On the one hand, a … More
This is not a test: discipline, the shitty first draft, and the real world.
A doctorate propels you towards the real world of scholarship. You will be a teacher, a researcher, an author. This is not a test. No-one else knows the answer to this stuff, that’s why you are making ‘an original contribution to knowledge’.
It’s your magnum opus
Often, when I’m talking about completing a doctoral project I say, ‘It’s a PhD, not a Nobel Prize‘ (quoting from … More
Are you finished?
Sometimes you can’t write anymore because you are finished. Really, that last chapter is never going to be part of … More
