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Articles, tips, and notices for postgraduate research students at Auckland University of Technology (AUT) and beyond.
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Wisker, Robinson and Shacham, (2007) suggest that “All research is a dialogue with others” (p. 304) and that can mean a number of things. First, exchanging ideas with other students […]
“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 […]
Are you dreaming about having finished your thesis? It’s been examined, you’ve made the required amendments, taken the copies to be bound and now you can have a well-earned rest, […]