The best academic writing is easy to ready and understand, we all know this. But exactly how do we define a text that is easy to read and understand? Which writing style techniques can we apply to make sure we…
As I write this post, I just finished writing a draft paper of the list of papers that I want to publish from my dissertation. And it only took me 8 hours!Now before I describe how I wrote this draft…
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…
Today in the Writers' Lab (which has been rather vacant for a while) I have the pleasure of hosting William Delgado, a professional writer. Have you wondered how the people behind paid essay writing services feel about writing, and which…
Recently, I was browsing the #phdchat hashtag, when I found a great question by @larkened : As a PhD student, is it best to publish as much as possible even if in low impact factor journals? I'm being encouraged that…
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…
Through Wetenschapper 2.0, reblogged from Roy Meijer, I discovered Project #Tweetprop.Project #Tweetprop was initiated by Felienne Hermans, who blogged about the 10 propositions of her PhD thesis. Subsequently, Eric Bouwers, Rolf Hut and Sander van der Burg blogged about their…
Today in the Writers' Lab we are hosting a professional ghost writer, Jeffrey Peters. Jeffrey works as a chief editor for a college paper writing service based in the US. In this post, he gave us his best advice for…
Today, I have the pleasure of hosting Koen Van den Eeckhout for a guest post in the Writers' Lab. Koen has recently obtained his PhD in physics at Ghent University, on the subject of glow-in-the-dark materials. In the following years…
On Tuesday, September 14th in 2010, I started PhD Talk. At that time I didn't have much of a defined goal for the blog. The original purpose of the blog, was the following:"However, there are always better ways to do…
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