The Sleep Factor: How to Improve Mental Acuity and Memory
Writing your dissertation can be a long and arduous process, albeit one with significant rewards. It can also cause a serious amount of apprehension and anxiety...enough to interfere with our sleep. Here’s the catch: unless we’re sufficiently rested, not only does it...
Preparing For Your Upcoming Dissertation Defense
Hi there, Great news! You are now almost at the end of a long and challenging journey. It's so very, very close. You never thought this day would arrive, but miraculously, you have completed your dissertation. It’s been vetted by your advisor and the other members of...
Motivating Yourself to Complete Your Dissertation Part One: Your Work Space
Hi there! Researching and writing a doctoral dissertation is often a long and lonely process. It can take anywhere from two or three years to what seems forever. Unless you’re a newly-minted graduate student with a few teaching duties and a scholarship that allows...
Choosing a Doctoral Program: Making the Right Choice
After some deep reflection, you've finally decided to take the leap and apply to a doctoral program. As well as the gratifying aspects of the Ph.D. process, the reality is that it consumes a good part of your life, take years to complete and costs a substantial...
Choosing a Dissertation Coach: Finding the Right Fit
It can be argued that writing a dissertation may be one of the most challenging cognitive tasks you’ll ever undertake. Many equate it to writing a book - but completing a dissertation goes beyond that. A better comparison: writing a dissertation is really writing an...
Do You Need a Dissertation Coach?
You have been on the educational journey for a long time by now: primary school, secondary school, undergraduate school, followed by graduate school for your masters and now your Ph.D. It’s been a lot of years - likely a long haul - and if you’re not yet at the very...
Increase Your Writing Flow
It's easy to think of a gratitude journal as a marketing tactic to sell artfully designed books full of blank pages. But from a practical point of view, this type of journaling technique has more merit than your Inner New Age Skeptic might think. It's a practice that...
A Fresh Approach to Goals in 2021
"Your brain will work tirelessly to achieve the statements you give your subconscious mind. When those statements are the affirmations and images of your goals, you are destined to achieve them." – Jack CanfieldIt It comes as no surprise: most New Year resolutions...
Conquering Writer’s Block
Get Your Writing Flowing Again Hi there grad student! Picture this: You are sitting at your desk, notes neatly organized, outline in hand, your mind nicely overflowing with all the relevant knowledge you need right now, fingers posed on the keyboard and ....nothing...
The Power of a Well-Constructed Paragraph
Ah, the oft-misunderstood paragraph. Most of us learned the basics of standard paragraph construction during our elementary school years and beyond. The first sentence should contain your main point and the following sentences should substantiate that point. Simple,...