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Tag: metaphor

‘Turning the dial’: a more sustainable way to make New Year plans

It’s the beginning of the year, and some of you are heading back to work already. I certainly am. Not … More

learning, metaphor, planning, time management

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
Going up the mountain is slow, coming down is fast

The different stages of the writing process

Last week, I talked about the writing cycle being a trap for perfectionists when applied to each sentence, but really useful … More

Drafting, Editing, metaphor, PhD, Research, Writing

A third Cute Metaphor to help you get your thesis written

If you come to my house, and I give you a beautiful piece of basil-smeared chicken breast, wrapped in pancetta, … More

argument, metaphor, Research, Writing
Map of fields

A second Cute Metaphor for helping you get your thesis written

This is the second cute metaphor for helping you to get your thesis written.  (Here is the first) I’m defining … More

literature review, metaphor, Research, Writing

Three Cute metaphors for getting your thesis written

This is the first in a series of 3 posts: cute, quick metaphors (from the Greek, to carry across one … More

metaphor, planning, Research

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