Is Your Thesis Defense Just a Formality, or Real Defense? “Your thesis defense is in 3 weeks?” my best friend, Kat, asked me astonished when she heard that my defense date was finally approved. “I am taking the day off from work, see you then,” she continued. Kat drove from New York to Cambridge (over 200 […]
Writing and Publishing
The Right Thesis Statement Can Save You 12 Months in Graduate School
Your Thesis Statement Can Save (or Cost) You Years in Grad School “Do you have a thesis statement?” I asked Mike during our coaching session. He paused, and then asked hesitantly: “A thesis statement? I am working on my slides, not my thesis draft.” Mike was preparing for his committee meeting to defend his thesis proposal. He […]
Don’t Let Your Thesis Proposal Keep You Stuck in Grad School
What does an ideal thesis proposal look like? My friend, Marc, a PhD in electrical engineering, described graduate school as being thrown into the Atlantic Ocean with a paddleboat. I love this analogy, because it captures how so many graduate students feel: struggling to keep their head above the water with no one in sight […]
4 Tips to Finish Your Thesis Even If You Have Crippling Writers Block
by Scott Rank, Founder, Scholarpreneur.com From Crippling Writers Block to Finished Thesis in 6 Months It is possible to finish your dissertation in six months. This is true even if you have not finished your research or do not know what to write. I know this because I went from crippling writers block to […]
Why You Cannot Beat Procrastination With Better Time Management
Being busy doesn’t cure procrastination Did you ever sit down committed to writing something and find yourself staring blankly at the screen an hour later with close to nothing to show for your time?I went through several weeks of “brain fog” when I wrote my first publication, which was a literature review. Weeks went by […]
The Roadmap to Your PhD Thesis
Those of you readers who are trying to write your PhD thesis know what a maize the process can be. At the beginning, while we are taking classes, the path is clear. We need to choose a supervisor, a project, and pass our exams. Once all that is done, however, the “hard” part begins. For […]