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The PhD Discussion Chapter: What It Is & How To Write It

The PhD Discussion Chapter: What It Is & How To Write It

by Dr. Max Lempriere | Sep 11, 2023 | Improve Your Writing, Structure a PhD

  Your PhD discussion chapter is your thesis’s intellectual epicenter. Think of it as the scholarly equivalent of a courtroom closing argument, where you summarise the evidence and make your case. Perhaps that’s why it’s so tricky – the skills you...
Keep Your Reader Engaged: How To Craft PhD Thesis Statements

Keep Your Reader Engaged: How To Craft PhD Thesis Statements

by Dr. Max Lempriere | Sep 1, 2023 | Improve Your Writing

In this post, I’m going to give you what I think is the easiest win when it comes to improving your writing: using thesis statements to tell the reader what the destination is right at the outset of your writing. PhD thesis statements will be a useful tool in...
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...
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