#15minacwri – Embracing the writing challenge
I have had a system of tracking my writing for years… Many years. Some times I felt like I didn’t need it anymore, and tried to stop using it, but then realised without it I don’t produce much… Actually I produce almost nothing. Read more…
Time management for thesis writing
On 3 July this year, while I was printing my thesis I got a few notifications from my LinkedIn network. As it turns out, the day I submitted my thesis was exactly the day I completed three years working at Lincoln University, Read more…
‘Tech 4’ planning and time management: Week Plan
2013 has been the year of discovery, and among many other things in personal and professional life I discovered the real importance of planning. Read more…
#AcWriMo update
This week I decided to postpone the planned post and make a confession instead. AcWriMo has been teaching me heaps… About myself! Read more…
‘Tech 4’: a series
Regardless what area you work on, it is very likely at some stage you have faced the challenge of managing a large or long project. Read more…
it is #AcWriMo time!
For the past year I have been reading on some of my favourite blogs comments about #AcWriMo. If you have not heard of it yet, #AcWriMo stands for Academic Writing Month and is inspired by the NaNoWriMo for novelists. The idea is to push yourself and some people say it is possible to write a whole novel in a month! Read more…
How the Pomodoro Technique can help improve your focus
Keeping the focus throughout a long project such as a dissertation or thesis is certainly not an easy task. When we have a long project in front of us, but the end of it seems unachievable, we tend not to start. Read more…
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