10 books every graduate student should read
Regardless of what you are studying, there are a few books that can help just about any graduate student master …
Category Archives: Being a scholar
10 tips on writing productively
While I still have a long way to go, I want to share some of the things I’ve learned about …
Milestones
The PhD contains a bunch of milestones, and today I hit another one of the small ones. Labor day weekend …
Flow
There is a mystical feeling often written about but rarely experienced called Flow. To quote wikipedia: Flow is the mental …
Academic Writing Club: A review
About a month and a half ago I stumbled across Academic Ladder. The site is run by Gina Hiatt, a …
My, what a lot of paper you have….
I’ve been focusing more on working lately than on writing here, and it’s been productive. I have about 4000 words …
Academic publishing runs on its own schedule, Part 2
As if sitting on our article for years (literally – nearly 3 years, see my first post on this topic) …
Demystifying Dissertation Writing Part 1: Chapters 1-5
In order to move myself forward on this process I have been reading Demystifying Dissertation Writing:A Streamlined Process from Choice …
Academic publishing runs on its own schedule
3 years ago my chair and I presented a paper at the premier conference in our field. We took the …
How I use OneNote for my Dissertation
The question came up recently about how I am using OneNote for my dissertation note taking. Sometimes show is easier …
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