Throwback Thursday: 10 Secrets Known Only to Academic Writers
This post by Dr Anaise Irvine first appeared on Thesislink in March 2015. Despite all the writers who write about writing, there are still a few things that I think […]
Author: Anaise Irvine
Is Statistical Significance on the Way Out?
Hold on to your hats, quantitative researchers. Last week, a trio of scientists wrote a piece in the Comments section of Nature arguing that the concept of statistical significance should […]
Visualizing the ‘Through-Thread’
If you’ve read books / gone to workshops / heard supervisors talk about the thesis as a genre, you’ve almost certainly learned the importance of having a consistent line of […]
Throwback Thursday: Who are you Writing For?
This post by Dr Anaise Irvine first appeared on Thesislink in September 2015. How many people will read your thesis? It’s the impossible question. A few examiners, at least. […]
Don’t Break Up With Your Writing
In order to produce a thesis of 40,000 or 80,000 words, you have to be in a long-term relationship with writing. This isn’t a brief fling, in which you write […]
Respecting and Revitalising Languages in Your Research
AUT’s Professor Tania Ka‘ai is the Director of Te Ipukarea, the National Māori Language Institute, and Te Whare o Rongomaurikura, The International Centre for Language Revitalisation. She works on projects […]
Criticising vs Critiquing
I don’t like confrontation. Don’t like stepping on toes. I don’t complain when I get bad service, and even in the anonymity of the internet, I don’t leave negative reviews […]
Beating the Post-Holiday Blues
The holidays are over. The sun still shines outside, but we can’t bask in it. The water at the beach is still warm, but we can’t swim in it. Instead […]
10 More Auckland Summer Activities (for Student Budgets)
Around this time last year, we published a list of 10 Auckland Summer Activities (for Student Budgets). Quite a few of you loved the ideas and asked for more. So […]
10 Quirky Academic Gift Ideas
With the season of shopping and consumerism now upon us, we’ve started thinking about gifts that will satisfy and delight the academics in our lives. You may like to pick […]
Boost Your Concentration with these Free Resources
There are times in every research student’s life when you’ve just got to buckle down and get $%*t done. When you need to go hard, distractions are your worst enemy. […]
AUT Closedown Dates for Summer 2018-2019
You can tell it’s getting near to the end of the year when the crowds of exam-stressed undergrads dissipate and you suddenly don’t have to wait in line for coffee/elevators/toilets. […]