Katie Shives is a PhD candidate in Microbiology at the University of Colorado. Her writing can be found on her portfolio site, kdshives.com. Anyone pursuing a graduate degree has experienced the ...

Blogging and academic writing are often perceived as water and oil: They just don’t go together. At least that’s the perception I have encountered since I started pursuing my Ph.D. and writing blog ...

There’s not much good to find in a destructive pandemic, but here’s one potentially positive outcome: Covid-19 may bring graduate schools to a long-needed reckoning with the dissertation requirement.

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The thesis: the culmination of years of study in a field we were passionate about. An essay that should be simple then, right? Especially with the fruit of extensive research, everything should be ...

During my first PhD anthropology theory course, it was suggested to us that we should start writing every single day. Our professor told us that we needed to sit down for an hour every single day, or ...

Joan Bolker ’60 knows how to write. At least, she does now. Co-founder of the Harvard Writing Center, author and practicing psychologist, Bolker spent much of her life learning how to write. Now she ...

Writing a dissertation is, perhaps, one of the most tasking jobs for college students. The fast-paced nature of modern society has made it harder for students to spare time for completing voluminous ...