How to write your PhD thesis #4: Decision-making

Writing is all about decision making! Avoiding decisions by "just writing" only makes it more difficult in the long-term. But making just one decision often makes subsequent decisions (and editing your work) much easier
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0:00 Introduction: Decision making is essential in academic writing
0:35 The secret: Your examiner wants you to make decisions
2:20 Make decisions before you start to write

[@ritaseumanutafapalala]

Thank you for the reminder! I'm currently finishing up thesis and now going through to ensure I sound confident and decisive in my writing.

[@James_Hayton]

The way to sound decisive is to be decisive! Good luck with the final editing

[@loumitchell7450]

work from your strengths, papers you cite have to be good enough - pearls of wisdom for me at the moment in my writing. Thank you.

[@juliatelfer7843]

This is so helpful

[@tawfiqezaz3455]

Useful Advices

[@user-eg5pd9yt2k]

Thanks James, Your videos are very helpful! I have four month till graduation, but I didn't finish my thesis yet, I'm so worry, if I will finish it or not, Please give me any suggestion!

[@James_Hayton]

Have you at least done all the research you need to do? And have you analysed your data?

[@user-eg5pd9yt2k]

yes I did @@James_Hayton

[@James_Hayton]

OK, and how much do you have left to write? And how much is in a submittable state? My general suggestion would be to make sure you're finishing sections you're working on. What many people do is jump around in the document, working on different sections and switching each time they get stuck. It's better to finish them one at a time so you don't have to complete all of them (doing all the difficult things you've left for later) right at the very end. You may also need an extension... I don't know without knowing a little more context