by Author | Oct 7, 2020 | ESL Resources, Student contribution
Have you checked out the rest of The PhD Knowledge Base? It’s home to hundreds more free resources and guides, written especially for PhD students. Author: Caitlin Meyer Another chapter in academia can be a harrowing concept for anyone as the journey... 
by Dr. Max Lempriere | Jun 5, 2020 | ESL Resources, Structure a PhD, Writing
Your PhD thesis is the culmination of years of coursework and research and it can seem pretty overwhelming. Once you complete a draft, your work is far from over. Editing and proofreading are a significant part of your work on your dissertation, but after drafting... 
by Dr. Max Lempriere | May 21, 2019 | ESL Resources, Writing
Writing a PhD is hard. Writing a PhD in English when it isn’t your first language is even harder. ESL PhD students have their work cut out for them, that’s for sure. We’ve created an infographic that sums up the most common challenges ESL PhD... 
by Dr. Max Lempriere | May 6, 2019 | ESL Resources, Writing
If you’re writing a PhD as an international student at a Western university and English is your second language, you’ve probably had moments when you think your supervisor just doesn’t understand you. You’ve likely felt that, no matter what you do, your writing just... 
by Dr. Max Lempriere | Apr 24, 2019 | ESL Resources, Improve Your Writing, Writing
The hardest thing about doing a PhD isn’t the research, the literature review, the research design. They’re all hard, sure, but the hardest thing about doing a PhD is the constant worry about whether what you’re doing is ‘good enough’. The trouble is, we only have so... 
by Dr. Max Lempriere | Mar 27, 2019 | ESL Resources, Improve Your Writing, Proofreading
Record numbers of PhD students are having their dissertations proofread. Should it be counted as cheating? Sometimes, yes. This might seem like a strange thing for someone who runs a PhD proofreading company to say, but it’s true. It’s a wild-west out there and it’s... 
