Articles, tips, and notices for postgraduate research students at Auckland University of Technology (AUT) and beyond.
Supervisors write a lot of references. Whenever you apply for a job, a scholarship, an amendment to enrolment, conference funding, or any of a million other things, your supervisors’ comments […]
A thesis is a long and complex document that often presents very difficult and challenging ideas. Breaking those ideas down into easily digestible chunks – i.e. chapters – will help […]
In the years I spent writing my Masters and PhD theses, I never felt like I experienced writer’s block. Oh, I got stuck, for sure. But the term ‘writer’s block’ […]
A hardworking group of postgraduate research students has recently returned from the April Writing Retreat hosted by AUT’s Graduate Research School. Writing retreats are like an intensive clinic for your […]
Imagine you’re a journalist, and you’ve been asked to write a headline for a news story about the opening of a new park. You’re told to ensure that the headline […]
“More research is needed.” How often have you read that phrase? It is the final sentiment of an overwhelming proportion of journal articles, and is repeated so often at academic […]
Listen up, because I’m about to tell you an easy way to make people think you’re in the know when it comes to stylish writing. Take a stance on the […]
Writers’ block is real, and it really sucks. There’s nothing worse than the feeling of time ticking away as you stare pointlessly at a screen, unable to make blank space […]
In my previous blogpost I highlighted the importance of embracing feedback to improve your academic writing and to increase the chances of your paper being published in a prestigious journal. […]
Monday 3 April to Thursday 6 April 2017 Closing date for applications to be submitted is Friday 3 March 2017. The Graduate Research School (GRS) invites all postgraduate research students at AUT who want […]
Are you finding it hard to get traction with your writing? Facing too many distractions? Always being interrupted? A Writing Retreat could be just what the doctor ordered. One definition […]
Many researchers today face the dilemma of how to get their research cited. A large amount of effort goes into writing and publishing a research article but is thispublication accessible to other […]
