Category Archives: graduate school

Recent Posts

• Connecting your specific research to broader questions in the literature, the field and the discipline
• The value and importance of the pre-writing stage of writing
• My experience teaching residential academic writing workshops
• “State-Sponsored Activism: Bureaucrats and Social Movements in Brazil” – Jessica Rich – my reading notes
• Reading Like a Writer – Francine Prose – my reading notes
• Using the Pacheco-Vega workflows and frameworks to write and/or revise a scholarly book
• On framing, the value of narrative and storytelling in scholarly research, and the importance of asking the “what is this a story of” question
• The Abstract Decomposition Matrix Technique to find a gap in the literature
• 16 tips on the process of academic writing and publishing from the #ISA2023 Environmental Studies Section Speed Mentoring Session
• Producing journal article manuscripts from a doctoral dissertation
• 5 habit-forming, practice-developing strategies that you can work with during the upcoming month
• On calendars, synchronization and collaborative work in academia: Aligning Priorities and Availabilities across multiple people
• On writing by hand and always keeping a written record of everything
• Qualitative Literacy: A Guide to Evaluating Ethnographic and Interview Research (my reading notes)
• On the importance of networks in graduate school and beyond (and the challenges of switching disciplines and fields)
• A partial, commented bibliography on focus groups
• The logic of research inquiry and the use of the puzzle approach in research design
• 4 lessons I learned (the hard way) about health, overwork, and life as an academic
• Reading is writing: To situate your work within the broader literature, you need to READ
• 3 fundamental lessons about reading and academic writing
• Preparing for the PhD defense/viva? Use the GDN instead of a DTP
• On Cornell Notes and the importance of noting down EVERYTHING including the article or book chapter (or book) full citation.
• Writing the dissertation (thesis) III: Controlling the dissertation/thesis
• The missing link in the literature review process: 4 elements to look for when reviewing the literature
• The repeating cycle of overwork in academia: a first-person account