Interesting posts from other blogs…
A couple of other blogs had posts this week that caught my attention and that I wanted to share. Both …
Category Archives: Being a scholar
Project Management for Academics – An Introduction
One of the interesting things that comes with a 20 year pre-PhD career is experience in areas that most academics …
A framework for a coherent research platform
When I first started looking in to student and academic productivity, one of the first bloggers I stumbled upon was …
Journal articles vs. Conference proposals
I’ve been debating lately whether I want to submit any more conference proposals, and more specifically whether I want to …
Lesson 1: There is a reason for the 50% graduation rate
Only 50% of doctoral students graduate. Having gone through the process, this is no longer surprising. I wrote once before …
What now?
So…defense is done, revisions are approved, all paperwork is turned in and my dissertation has been filed with the publishing …
The good, the bad, and the ugly
The Good: My chair got back to me with comments on the results chapter, and overall felt that the analysis …
Four more books
Another blogger wrote a post on their top five books to help with a PhD. One was on my list, …
Misaligned expectations
Yesterday was my dissertation proposal review. As longer-time readers will know, I completed the proposal (which is essentially the intro, …
Mendeley, Part II
I’m as bad as anyone else. Sometimes procrastination just happens, and some of it happened this weekend. I started playing …
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