Greenflame
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Category: Finishing the PhD
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Clearing out a bunch of things that have been sitting in the Bookmarks bar of my web browser. Here’s a bunch of links to some interesting higher education posts I saved during the last 6 months. Videoing lectures ‘has no impact’ on attendance, says study | Times Higher Education (THE) This is why traditional lectures…
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This link came across my desk today. Blog + Twitter feed for those writing theses etc. Looks interesting. The Thesis Whisperer.
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Here’s a PDF of collating all the Finishing the PhD material. tribulationorrapture.pdf
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(Part 10 of 10) To finish the thesis you have to want to finish it, and be prepared to sacrifice time and energy to get there. As a friend once told me, doing a PhD is 90-99% perseverance (and much less brilliance). Once you’re committed to finishing you just have to get on and do…
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(Part 9 of 10) Fairly simple point, but harder, perhaps, to get right. When someone reads your thesis can they clearly distinguishing you and your arguments in there. It’s all about communicating your own contribution clearly. In the midst of citations, quotations, footnotes and comparing/contrasting ideas it’s important to be heard clearly. Are my views,…
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(Part 8 of 10) In television or film production people, such as a script supervisor, are responsible for making sure that there is a consistency seen about the persons, plot, objects, places and events as seen by the viewer, even though the episode or film is made up of small pieces and later edited together.…
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(Part 7 of 10) One of the temptations when trying to finish off the PhD thesis is to continue to try and stay up with the latest reading material, and to incorporate that into the thesis. However, there comes a time when you simply have to stop doing that. To draw a line in the…
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(Part 6 of 10) One of the things that needs to be taken into account as you struggle to finish the thesis are your supervisors. For you, finishing the thesis has probably become you entire life and it’s easy to assume the same of your supervisors. However, they have their own lives to live –…
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(Part 5 of 10) Everyone has a horror story about losing part of their thesis. In my case it wasn’t so bad, just a day or two’s notes I’d typed out a year or two back which weren’t there when I came to check something. I was lucky because I had a day or two…
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(Part 4 of 10) Just some brief tips here relating to citations, footnotes and the like. Cite as fully as you can when write and edit. Put full citation details etc. in your notes even. Makes it much easier to find where a quote or idea came from when you’re looking for it in a…