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Stop! Before you write a word of your thesis, you need to choose a style guide.

Stop! Before you write a word of your thesis, you need to choose a style guide.

by Dr. Max Lempriere | Feb 23, 2021 | Improve Your Writing

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.    A style guide? No, not a guide to the latest fashions.  Not even a hairstyle guide, in case you’re under the...
Seven tips for clear and concise writing in your PhD

Seven tips for clear and concise writing in your PhD

by Dr. Max Lempriere | Jun 7, 2019 | Improve Your Writing, Writing

Without discrediting the merit of academic investigation and the findings you’ve produced, at the heart of a PhD is a goal to make the examiner happy.  Clear, concise writing is an important component of achieving that goal. Concise writing is easier to read and...
Five tips to improve your PhD thesis

Five tips to improve your PhD thesis

by Dr. Max Lempriere | Jun 7, 2019 | Improve Your Writing, Increase Your Productivity, Structure a PhD, Structuring a thesis

Many of the guides, templates and tips on The PhD Knowledge Base are oriented towards specific sections of the thesis. That’s because each section presents its own challenges and needs its own approach. However, there are five tips to bear in mind that apply...
The PhD only needs to be good enough, which is terrifying if English is your second language.

The PhD only needs to be good enough, which is terrifying if English is your second language.

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...
Proofreading is cheating, isn’t it?

Proofreading is cheating, isn’t it?

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...
7 Ways To Beat PhD Writer’s Block

7 Ways To Beat PhD Writer’s Block

by Dr. Max Lempriere | Mar 21, 2019 | Improve Your Writing, Increase Your Productivity, Stay Motivated, Writing

Writing your PhD thesis is the most rewarding accomplishment of your education. It’s what allows you to call yourself “Doctor”. One problem: it’s hundreds of pages long and writing anything of that length can feel like climbing a mountain, even if you’ve written...
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