This blog post is the second part in our 5-part series: Your Dissertation Committee. To read the first part of the series, go back to March 26 and read about the various tips and tricks on how to maintain a good relationship with your committee. When you read this post, you’ll learn that selecting and assembling a committee encompasses many tasks that require attention and detail-oriented work. You might be…

This is the first part of a 5 part series: Your Dissertation Committee. Before you jump into the process of receiving your doctorate degree, you’ll need to focus on a few things, such as who should be in your committee and how you’ll create a good community among all of you. The following tips will make up the rest of the Your Dissertation Committee series, so keep an eye out…

Yes. Sleep is actually more important to us than we think. Especially for graduate and PhD students. Even though you may think that if you get less sleep, you can get more work done, you will benefit more than you know if you decide to catch those Zs more often. You might be thinking, “That could never happen with my schedule,” but here are a few notes that you should…

Students struggle with staying true to themselves in a few different ways: allowing fear to cripple their writing, becoming a cocky writer, plagiarizing, and thinking too much about their writing. More issues exist in students’ writing, but these are a few that I would like to highlight in this blog post. The first article that I found discusses how you should not allow fear to cripple your writing.