Organizing your literature review
More Q&A - and remember, you are always free to drop me your questions as well, and I'll do my very best to either send you a personal mail with my thoughts, or turn it into a Q&A post.A reader…
Writer’s Lab: 30 Ways to Tackle Writer’s Block
We've all been in this awful situation: you need to write a paper or work on a chapter of your dissertation, but 20 minutes pass, and you can't write anything. You go surf the internet for a little bit, return…
Why consuming sugar is a bad idea
I used to haul a big package of cookies and coffee into my office to get some serious work done, but over time, I noticed that sugar and fat make me really sleepy. Way back in 2010 I already wrote…
Ten Tips for Surviving your PhD Defense
In the weeks following my PhD defense and graduation, I wrote about how I prepared for my PhD defense and about my experience during the defense itself. Long before my own defense, I had already written a post about the…
Writers’ Lab: Five Steps to Completing your First Draft – the Academic Writing Edition
Some time ago, I came across an excellent article that outlines 5 steps to completing your first draft. The article aims at any written content, and it's just screaming to get its academic makeover. Before you can start throwing words…
Is university expensive?
As I love infographics (even though I know they're often not the result of thorough research and their data typically does not hold together - but hey, they are pretty), I'm always on the hunt for interesting infographics about higher…
How much time does it take to write a paper?
As I'm working through a backlog of questions from readers, I came across the following question that requires a little more explanation:Hi eva (& all others). Can u all tell me how much time it took to write the paper…
Apprenticeship in co-authoring papers
I recently came across this article , written by Charlotte Wegener and Lene Tanggaard about the apprenticeship perspective in co-writing between supervisor and doctoral student.The article itself is very interesting, and I think it is useful for supervisors as well…
When exercise takes the backseat
Tenure, She Wrote recently published a post on exercise routines, and I really recognized my own experiences in that post.It's counter-intuitive, but it always happens: whenever I am burried in work, stressed out and need exercise the most, I start…
How to present your proposal
Continuing with the pile of questions that I have which deserve a spot in the Q&A series, I would like to expand on the following question, which I got through Twitter:I have presentation on my proposal, please help me with…