"The final months of a PhD are incredibly messy," says James Clewett - and I couldn't agree more.Unless you are doing your PhD in your home country and will roll into a faculty position naturally at your institution (there are…
As I've been keeping track of how I spend my time in ManicTime, I can now assess how much time writing my dissertation took me, and how much time rewriting and implementing comments took me.When I finished my first draft,…
Your acknowledgements might be the only part of your dissertation that your friends and family will ever read (and probably some other researchers in your field too).While acknowledgements typically have a lighter tone than the rest of the dissertation, it…
That very beginning of writing your dissertation - chapter 1, the introduction - and then nothing but the flashing cursor in your writing software... This situation is probably the beginning of 99% of all dissertations.The end is also quite the…
One of the major moments of intense frustration I went through in preparing the final draft for my dissertation, was the moment when I needed to revert the landscape pages that contained large tables back into portrait pages.Why was that…
I'm breaking my regular stream of posts to let you know that my dissertation is now available online through the TU Delft Repository. The printed copies should be ready on Thursday - 250 books in total are coming my way.Even…
Mid November I finished the first draft of my thesis, printed it and handed a copy of it to my 2 supervisors. Shortly afterwards, I headed to Pittsburgh for holidays. I intended to take my thesis print with me, and…
As a PhD student, writing is one of my main activities. I've been trying to improve my academic writing over the past year as part of my PhD journey. Although I haven't had to face a giant writer's block yet,…
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