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 | Mar 6, 2019 | Improve Your Writing, Structure a PhD, Structuring a thesis
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. How long does it take the person reading your thesis to understand what you’re doing and how you’re doing it? If the...
by Dr. Max Lempriere | Feb 27, 2019 | Improve Your Writing, Structure a PhD, Writing
Here, we show you how to write a PhD proposal that will stand out from the hundreds of others that are submitted each day. Before we do though, know one thing: The research you describe when you write your PhD proposal won’t look anything like the research you finally...
by Dr. Max Lempriere | Feb 26, 2019 | Improve Your Writing, Structure a PhD, 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. Get the introduction right and the rest of your dissertation will follow. Mess it up and you’ll be struggling...
by Dr. Max Lempriere | Feb 12, 2019 | Improve Your Writing, Structure a PhD, Writing
Picture this: your examiner has just spent a week reading your thesis (yes – it takes that long!). They’ve understood your aims and objectives, like your methodology, think you applied your theory well and found your results fascinating. Then they get to...
by Dr. Max Lempriere | Feb 12, 2019 | Improve Your Writing, Structure a PhD, Writing
There are a lot of posts that talk about how to write an abstract. Most say that you should write your abstract to impress your examiner. We say that you need to flip things upside down: sure, your examiner will read it and want to see that you’ve written it...
