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... 
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... 
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... 
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... 
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... 
