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Key strategy tips:
1) How long is a PhD thesis? You've written annual reports, literature reviews, and methods. Recycle them and use software like Mendeley and Zotero for referencing
2) Make your introduction short. Pick your syllabus for the defence
3) Stop working in the lab
4) 500 words a day
5) Grab few thesis from your lab or labs next door to check formatting and referencing style. Ask your supervisor. Talk to them about chapter targets and feedback.
6) Difficult and easy chapters: alternate
7) Insert table of contents from the references tab and use cross-referencing.
8) Environment for writing, creating habits and accountability system.
9) Take scheduled breaks.
During my PhD I worked for:
- Brilliant Club Charity thebrilliantclub.org/
- iGEM igem.org/
- my university salsa society
My favourite software:
- document management and referencing: Mendeley, Zotero
- Image processing: ImageJ
- Creating figures: Inkspace, Illustrator, GraphPad Prism
- Spellchecker: Grammarly.com
- Formatting checker: PerfectIT
Some of these are paid but your University might have a subscription!
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00:00 Intro
00:58 How long is a PhD thesis really?
06:32 Writing Introduction
09:06 Stop the labs
12:48 Daily target
17:20 Formatting and structure
18:43 Chapter targets and feedback
21:11 Chapter writing order
24:11 Writing environment
26:04 Breaks and downtime