Structuring a thesis
When you have to bring structure into a large piece of writing, such as a thesis or a book, you may be struggling in figuring out how everything works together. You may know that in one way or another, you…
Potential of Paraphrasing Tools in Improving the Quality of Research Writing
Today's guest post is by Judd Trump. Judd is a content writer with a passion for creating engaging and informative content. With over 3 years of experience in the industry, he has had the opportunity to work with a variety…
PhD Talk for AcademicTransfer – Seven best practices for associate professors
This post is part of the series PhD Talk for AcademicTransfer: posts written for the Dutch academic career network AcademicTransfer, your go-to resource for all research positions in the Netherlands. These posts are sponsored by AcademicTransfer, and tailored to those…
MDPI
As you may have heard, MDPI is now considered a predatory publisher. While academics have been debating MDPI for a while now, I have published in MDPI journals in the past (Fibers, Materials, Buildings, Sensors, Education Sciences, Societies, and Infrastructures),…
Further musings on time breakdowns
While I always analyze how I spent my time in the past semester or year, I never really look at the broad categories. I want to put a further lid on work and quit overwork . I still have 30…
Getting tenure – according to ChatGPT
Continuing my conversations with AI, here's another question I asked ChatGPT. I now asked it about the holy grail of academia: how to get tenure as a professor. Below, you can find the AI answer in italic and my comments…
Comparing my job 5 years ago and now
I was recently thinking about how my work and daily tasks have changed over time. To make this more specific, I looked at my agenda from five years ago (one of the advantages of using a digital calendar; I can…
How to excel as a researcher – according to ChatGPT
I'm continuing my conversations with AI in today's post. I now asked ChatGPT how to excel as a researcher. You can find the reply of the AI in italic and my comments on this in regular. To excel as a…
How much time am I spending in meetings?
In my weekly template, I typically only reserve time for my teaching and my recurring meetings. However, there are many additional meetings that come up all the time. Lately, I feel that I don't have enough buffer on my weekly…
One of my writing pet peeves
As an editor and reviewer, I have a few pet peeves related to academic writing. One of my main pet peeves is this: Authors who use the same sentence length throughout their writing. Seriously, academic writers: varying sentence length improves…