Why You Should Pick All the Cherries
On cherry trees, as in data, there will be some pieces of fruit that look great – so plump and red that you want to sink your teeth right in […]
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Ideas for Structuring Your Thesis or Dissertation
Editor’s note: this article, published in 2019, makes reference to a previous edition of the AUT Postgraduate Handbook that is now out of date. The most recent edition can be […]
My PhD was “For Nothing” and I Couldn’t be Happier
I once wanted to be a lecturer. I loved the idea that one day, I’d stand in front of a classroom full of impressionable young minds and nurture them, the […]
Throwback Thursday: Research and Socioeconomic Privilege
This post by Dr Anaise Irvine first appeared on Thesislink in April 2016. The writer Virginia Woolf famously said that in order to write, all a woman needed was “a […]
April Writers Retreat 2019
Earlier this month, AUT postgrad research students and expert facilitators descended on Vaughan Park Retreat in Long Bay for 3.5 days of uninterrupted writing bliss. No jobs, no kids, no […]
How to Not Annoy Journal Reviewers
Want to publish journal articles during your Masters or PhD? You’ll need to get past the gatekeepers first: the dreaded journal reviewers. Typically, when you submit your article to a […]
Let’s Talk Post-qualitative Inquiry
As researchers we inevitably work within a set of norms that have been built by other researchers before us, using the vocabulary they formed, and the methods they refined. As […]
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 […]
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 […]