An Uncommon Guide to Research, Writing & PhD Life

PhD

James Hayton
Getting know the field
First, who are the best-known and most influential researchers in your research area? Since these are the people everybody else knows about, it is important for you to know who they are and what research they have done that is considered so important. Second, but by no means less important, who else is doing similar research to you? Or put another way, who is your direct competition?
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The key to creative problem-solving is to think beyond the first thing that comes to mind and to consider alternative options.
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Her çiçeğin bir mevsimi, her kitabın bir zamanı vardır. Haziranın tadını yeni hikâyelerle çıkarın.
Life, like research, is unpredictable by nature, and every step you take will present choices you never could have anticipated. Good luck!
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Ending
How to wrap it all up? Think about the key points you want the reader to remember, incorporate them into a single, concise paragraph, then stop.
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With so many sources, and many new ones being published daily, it is impossible to read everything. The challenge then is not to read them all, but to intelligently select what to read.
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“True expertise is not shown explicitly, but implicitly through the clarity and insight of the argument.”
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