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Prioritizing wellbeing alongside academic development, this book provides practical advice to help students write well, and be well, during their PhD and throughout their career.
In this unique book, Katherine Firth offers expert guidance on developing a writing practice and avoiding burnout, providing strategies and insights for developing a sustainable writing career beyond the PhD thesis. The book covers every stage of the academic writing process, from planning and researching, through getting words on the page, to the often unexpectedly time-consuming editing and polishing. Readers are reminded that writing a thesis is hard work, but it needn't be damaging work. Each chapter includes a toolbox of strategies and techniques, such as meditations, writing exercises and tips to maintain physical wellbeing, that will help doctoral candidates start writing and keep writing, without sacrificing their health, wellbeing or relationships.
Relevant at any stage of the writing process, this book will help doctoral students and early career researchers to produce great words that people want to read, examiners want to pass and editors want to publish.
List of contents
Introduction
1. Reading and thinking: Also part of the writing process
2. Planning: Getting to where you want to go
3. Writing: Getting the words onto the page
4. Recharging: Using rest to help you write
5. Editing: Getting your thesis into shape 6. Polishing: Making your thesis shine 7. Rewriting: Addressing feedback from yourself and others 8. Conclusion: Writing well is not the opposite of being well
About the author
Katherine Firth has been developing research writers for more than 15 years and is currently Head of Lisa Bellear House, the University of Melbourne. A co-founder of the award-winning Thesis Bootcamp program, she maintains a writing blog,
Research Degree Insiders. She is co-author of the books
How to Fix your Academic Writing Trouble (2018),
Your PhD Survival Guide (2020) and
Level Up your Essays (2021).
Summary
Prioritising wellbeing alongside academic development, this book provides practical advice to help students write well, and be well, during their PhD and throughout their career.
