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Preparing for the doctoral dissertation defense (the “viva”) March 13, 2019
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What does Joli Jensen’s “low stakes, constant contact with a writing project” mean in practice? March 7, 2019
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Backcasting a Revise-And-Resubmit (R&R) manuscript March 7, 2019
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Reading, scribbling, highlighting, taking notes and organizing information from a journal article or book chapter – walking through my digital and analog processes February 28, 2019
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How to write an academic CV February 23, 2019
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Circadian rhythms and classifying tasks according to energy required February 1, 2019
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My word for 2019: NO January 22, 2019
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Does “writing every day” work? January 21, 2019
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On the value of drafts January 7, 2019
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Taking stock as a motivational strategy: Sum up what you’ve accomplished, not what you haven’t done December 30, 2018
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Note-taking techniques IV: Use abbreviations and/or shorthand December 10, 2018
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A brief guide to using Mendeley as a reference and citation manager and as an aid to write scholarly papers December 8, 2018
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Note-taking techniques III: The Cornell Notes Method December 8, 2018
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Building redundancies in personal organization and productivity systems: why it works for me December 8, 2018
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Note-taking techniques II: The Everything Notebook method December 7, 2018
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Note-taking techniques I: The index card method November 28, 2018
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What is a PhD? What does doing a PhD entail? November 22, 2018
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Developing a structured daily routine for writing and research November 17, 2018
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The Sunday night weekly planning strategy October 29, 2018
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Writing topic sentences and crafting paragraphs October 25, 2018
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Planning the timeline and progress of your doctoral dissertation (or Masters/undergraduate thesis) October 6, 2018
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Lateral Writing: A strategy to fight “writer’s block” October 1, 2018
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The October 2018 #AICCSED Reading Challenge (read one article a day) October 1, 2018
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Case Studies and Theory Development in the Social Sciences (my reading notes) September 29, 2018
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Writing theoretical frameworks, analytical frameworks and conceptual frameworks September 28, 2018
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