“Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can […]

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A piece of advice given to postgrad students everywhere is “write every day.” It’s great advice. We should all do it, but some of us find it hard. If you’re […]

Are you suffering from ABMTS – “anything but my thesis syndrome”? Does writing loom over your head like an ominous black cloud? You are not alone! It does seem way […]

Having been a part time PhD student for four years now,I have presented both locally and internationally to various conferences. I know there’s always a debate about how much we […]

Over the years I’ve been involved with post-graduate research I’ve heard many horror stories of lost files. Computers get stolen, or crash. Memory sticks get lost, or even broken. External […]

Check out this great blog post on a topic that challenges many researchers.  There are also links to two relevant papers. Click on the link provided: http://thesiswhisperer.com/2012/07/26/theory-anxiety/

You are may be very busy concentrating on your research, perhaps undertaking data collection or writing a chapter of the thesis, but how about considering writing a paper? It can […]

The short answers to get organized. The longer answer goes like this. Time – you never have enough of it.  So how can you make the most of it? There […]

I fell out of love with Endnote when it corrupted my PhD Proposal Word file to such an extent that every citation went in as four incomprehensible lines of field […]

When you are writing a thesis or a dissertation, there is always someone else in the room with you. Or, at least, I believe there should be. That person is […]