Here are some wise words from a postgraduate student who has successfully completed her MA:<\/p>\n
There\u2019s a common understanding in research degrees that there is a time for reading, a time for writing, and never the two shall meet. Throughout my Masters I constantly asked myself \u201chave I done too much reading?\u201d and \u201cis it too late in the process to be reading now?\u201d I could never quite dispel the feeling that, once I\u2019d progressed in my writing up, that I couldn\u2019t incorporate new ideas or readings into what I\u2019d already planned. However, through my experience I wholeheartedly found that dividing reading and writing time rigidly was not the most productive, inspiring or flexible means to produce research. When producing a thesis or dissertation, you\u2019re placing yourself in a community of research that is constantly changing and shifting. You never know when certain articles or books might resonate with you, or how your developing knowledge will recontextualise a piece that you\u2019ve read previously. You could even strike gold with something you read when planning your outline, but now have the critical capacity to use in ways you couldn\u2019t have imagined at the start of your research. Furthermore, reading the work of others as you\u2019re producing your own can be both motivating and soothing; a reflection of the quality and style you want for your finished product. So don\u2019t be afraid of discovering new ideas late into the writing process, or of revisiting earlier work \u2013 the research isn\u2019t over until you\u2019ve handed the finished thesis in.<\/p>\n
Author: Chloe Green<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here are some wise words from a postgraduate student who has successfully completed her MA: There’s a common understanding in research degrees that there is a time for reading, a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25632,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-category-3","category-category-5"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p83npQ-Y8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesislink.aut.ac.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesislink.aut.ac.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesislink.aut.ac.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesislink.aut.ac.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/25632"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesislink.aut.ac.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesislink.aut.ac.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3729,"href":"https:\/\/thesislink.aut.ac.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3728\/revisions\/3729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesislink.aut.ac.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesislink.aut.ac.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesislink.aut.ac.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}