“It doesn’t matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and…
The most useful textbook & academic writing posts of the week: October 30, 2015
November 1 is two short days away from being here. Since 2011 when Charlotte Frost (Founder and Director of PhD2Published) created #AcBoWriMo, November has been a month long marathon for academic writers to declare their writing goals, write and share progress updates along the way, plus connect and encourage other academics all over the world also striving to reach their writing goals. Academic Writing Month (AcWriMo for short), as it is now called, is the perfect excuse to start a blog or Twitter account to share your goals and progress, to encourage others, and to receive support and encouragement as you write.
10 Ways to tease out your perfect dissertation topic
If you’re beginning or in the throes of your dissertation, you may know from other long-suffering students that the work engenders a love-hate relationship, with all the exasperations, frustrations, teeth-clenching, and eye-rolling, and occasional affection, elation, and fulfillment (eventually) of a primary human relationship. Therefore, your topic, like your partner, should be one that initially excites you and sustains you throughout the inevitable rages and reconciliations, desires to divorce yourself from it or run back to its scholarly arms, and finally settle into a consistent satisfying relationship.
The most useful textbook & academic writing posts of the week: October 23, 2015
Have you ever heard of an inspiration or vision board? It’s a collage of images, quotes, and affirmations of your…
5 Ways to minimize writing anxiety & maximize self-efficacy
Academic writers often have high writing anxiety, so you’re not alone if you feel anxious when you write, said Margarita Huerta, assistant professor of educational and clinical studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. They also tend to have low self-efficacy, she said, which can lead to less confidence in their capability to write.
The most useful textbook & academic writing posts of the week: October 16, 2015
I have had an awful cold since Monday. When I’m this sick I can barely function as a human—or at…