Today in the Writers' Lab I have the pleasure of inviting William Alexander, who shares with us his writing habits. William Alexander was born and educated in Missouri. Currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, his interests…
Some time ago, I wrote a post about how to construct the outline of your dissertation. If you haven't read it: here's the summary of the idea. If you simply sit down one day and expect that you can start…
Over the past year, I've been mostly focused on writing. As I finished my dissertation, I started to work on the journal articles that I want to publish from my dissertation, which completely covered the time I was spending working…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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