(This article was originally published as a guest post at the Literature Review HQ blog in April 2014) If you are a PhD student or a postdoc you might be familiar with this situation. You’ve conducted research, completed data analysis, made graphs and discussed the results with your colleagues or your supervisor. You maybe even… Continue Reading
Productivity for Scientists
Category Archives: Writing
What to do if you’re sick and tired of your writing project
Are you working on a writing project with a tight deadline? It’s maybe your proposal, an application, your thesis or a paper that you have promised to send to your co-authors. You have worked hard on it for days or even weeks. And now you are tired physically, and you are also sick and tired… Continue Reading
Co-author not returning your paper?
You have drafted a paper and sent it to your co-author, boss or your supervisor, but you have not heard anything back from them for a number of weeks now. Frustrating, isn’t it? You really want to get it out of the way and focus on another project. Or maybe it is important to you… Continue Reading
Stuck working towards a deadline? Four steps to get unstuck!
“A deadline is coming up and I have not even started…” A lot of us have been in this situation, and some of you might be in it right now. The deadline is approaching but you have not started working towards it. You seem to get busy with anything else on your to do list… Continue Reading
How to overcome resistance and revisit your writing
Do you need to revisit your recent writing project – your thesis or research paper – to make the final improvements before submission? Are you experiencing a huge resistance to doing it? Are you postponing to open it and dreading to face it? In today’s video I share with you where this resistance is coming… Continue Reading