How to write to a prospective PhD (or Post-Doc) supervisorToday’s post is from Prof Faye Hicks. Faye is a hydrotechincal (civil) engineer with 30+ years of experience and the Author of “The Art...
DEALING WITH STUDENT-SUPERVISOR PROBLEMSINTRODUCTION Not all relationships work out as planned. Considering the stress graduate students experience and the amount of time it...
The Aims of PhD Candidate, Supervisor and Examiner: How to Avoid the Clash?" In this article we shall discuss the nature of a PhD. We shall consider the inevitably different aims the students, the supervisors and...
What Editors Want: Paving the Way to Publication." Do… …examine the scope of the journal and description of its contents before submitting. You might be amazed at the number of...
How to Read and Review a Scientific Journal Article" How to Read and Review a Scientific Journal Article: Writing Summaries and Critiques Definition of Genre Summaries and critiques are...
PhD vivas are unfair and I am paying the price" I sent my thesis for examination with the approval of my supervisors, both of whom are professors in their disciplines. Since then, it...
Institutionalizing Doctoral Writing Practices: Introduction (1/5)" It has been argued that research is writing, and that a focus on writing in supervision can support the co-construction of a scholarly...
Institutionalizing Doctoral Writing Practices: Writing-for-Publication Groups (2/5)" Unfortunately, many doctoral students are left to their own devices to sort out how to publish out of their doctorate research (Dinham...
Institutionalizing Doctoral Writing Practices: Collaborative Work with Academic Support Services (3/" Most universities offer a range of academic support services. These usually include undergraduate workshops and individual and group...
Institutionalizing Doctoral Writing Practices: Writing Courses (4/5)While North American universities have a long tradition of offering compulsory composition classes for first-year undergraduates, there...