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Often, when writing a thesis (or paper, or presentation, etc.), we unconsciously adopt a writer-centric approach. By that I mean: we get so preoccupied with conveying all the information in […]
Often, when writing a thesis (or paper, or presentation, etc.), we unconsciously adopt a writer-centric approach. By that I mean: we get so preoccupied with conveying all the information in […]
I had a fantastically eccentric English teacher in secondary school. She dressed like she’d just stepped off the catwalk at the Wearable Art Awards, all swirling colours and structural hats. […]
Semantic Scholar is a free literature search tool developed by the Allen Institute of AI (nicknamed AI2), a non-profit research institute. It has had a meteoric rise to prominence recently. […]
AUT’s doctoral 3 Minute Thesis winner Megan Burfoot has gone on to great things… including a top 8 placing in the 2020 Asia-Pacific 3MT Finals! Megan’s achievement is all the […]
When you’re gearing up to submit your thesis, it’s natural to wonder about the examiners. While the examination criteria for master’s and doctoral theses are spelt out in black and […]
It’s impossible to express with mere words how keenly many research students anticipate the moment of thesis submission. After months or years of work – the planning, the reading, the […]
During some recent idle file-browsing, I stumbled upon some writings from my undergraduate days. Nothing earth-shattering: just a few ten-year-old assignments that I’d forgotten about. I almost moved past them, […]
One of the many, many ways in which the world has changed this year is that a great many activities have moved online. AUT is no exception, and many of […]
This post first appeared on Thesislink in April 2017. Imagine you’re a journalist, and you’ve been asked to write a headline for a news story about the opening of a […]
As of now, COVID-19 has infected over 16 million people worldwide, and resulted in over 650,000 deaths. The pandemic has squashed economies, kept families apart, and caused countless people to […]
The best technique for making muffins seems counterintuitive. You combine your dry ingredients in one bowl, and your wet ingredients in another. In their separate bowls, you can mix the […]
I’ve been grappling with a Really Difficult Problem (RDP) on a project lately. You know the kind: necessary to deal with in order to make progress, but frustratingly complicated and […]