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 […]
Reflections of a Muslim Student During NZ’s Darkest Days
On Friday 15th of March 2019, I was studying in a parent room at the AUT City campus Library. At 3pm Margaret Leniston, one of my scholarship officers for my […]
Vigils Planned for Friday 22nd March
Tomorrow will mark one week since the terrorist attack against the Muslim community in Christchurch. It will also be the first time Kiwi Muslims return to Jummah prayers since the […]
WU Building Closure this Saturday
If you use the PG study rooms or other workspaces in WU building, you may have noticed a lot of construction going on lately. The building is currently undergoing a […]
Aroha to the Muslim Community and Christchurch
We usually focus on research here at Thesislink, but right now, it is very hard to do that. Our nation has been shaken, and our values attacked. Fifty people have […]
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 […]
Upcoming Peer Group Meetings for Postgrads
Lonely? Bored? Stressed out? From time to time, it can be helpful to get out of the office or lab and spend some time with humans who understand what you’re […]
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 […]
New Library Workshops: Learn EndNote, Zotero, Mendeley, LaTeX
The AUT Library team has been busy preparing lots of workshops to get you up to speed with the software you’ll need to manage your documents and citations. Whether you’re […]
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 […]