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Tag: completion

Is 2021 the year you finish your thesis?

Look, the true answer is ‘probably not’. I’m not being discouraging here, I’m talking about cold hard maths. Here are 10 … More

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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

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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’.

academic culture, article, completion, doctoral writing, Drafting, metaphor

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

academic writing, completion, Thesis

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

academic writing, completion, Editing, Thesis, Writing

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