Today, I once more have the pleasure of hosting Nicole K.S. Barker in the writers' lab. Nicole is a Ph.D. student at Laval University in Québec, Canada, working with Ducks Unlimited Canada and the Boreal Avian Modelling Project. While technically…
Today, I have the pleasure of hosting Nicole K.S. Barker in the writers' lab. Nicole is a Ph.D. student at Laval University in Québec, Canada, working with Ducks Unlimited Canada and the Boreal Avian Modelling Project. While technically a Forestry…
"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,…
Today, Ahmad Bilal shares a practical way on how to reduce your use of the passive voice. Ahmad is a civil engineer by profession from Pakistan, currently residing in Sweden. He received his bachelors in 2002 from NUST Pakistan and…
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…
Whenever I hear a fellow PhD student tell me that he/she has nothing to write a conference paper about, I get a little antsy.While the main chunk of your research might not be ready yet, that doesn't mean you have…
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…
Do you recognize yourself in the following description?You are trying very hard to write a paragraph, and just got into the flow of writing. But then you need to add a table or figure, and you need to start switching…
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