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Reviewing Your Final Draft

Before submitting your thesis for examination, you and your supervisors might want to review your final draft against the following...

Writing Conference Papers and Journal Articles

" As part of your development into a fully professional researcher, there are two important pieces of writing that PhD student should be...

PhD Thesis Writing as a Process

WRITING AS A PROCESS OF REWRITING Your thesis is the product on which you will be assessed. Writing it is far more than merely reporting...

Writing Your PhD: What & When?

" In this Article we shall examine the task of writing your PhD. First, note that we do not say ‘writing up your PhD’: that formulation...

Strategies for Overcoming Writer's Block

Sometimes researchers experience writer’s block. This can cause anxiety which in turn makes the writer even more anxious. The key is to...

Thesis Introduction: First to be Drafted Last to be Finalized.

In terms of writing, Introductions are often the first to be drafted, and last to be finalised. we’re usually still re-adjusting the...

The Story of a Shy Academic

Joe Moran on the little-known benefits of being a shrinking violet When I got my first academic job in 1996, it was easy enough to be...

Preparation to Do Masters or PhD: Checklist

Those who have an idea to do Masters/ PhD, but do not know how to move on? Finalised which area you are interested in. How about you? You...

10 Steps to PhD Failure

10 steps to PhD failure Kevin Haggerty and Aaron Doyle offer tips on making postgraduate study even tougher (which students could also...

Should the Foundations of a 21st-Century Academic Career Still be Built on the Traditional Model?

Communication within the science world and with the public is becoming shorter and snappier, yet our PhDs still seem to be stuck in the...