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How To Write Your Thesis
A toolset that will help make your thesis writing smooth and your thesis better!
Last updated 2/2021
English
What you'll learn
- How to turn your thesis writing into a project and use project management tools to make an actionable plan
- How to define the scientific story you will tell in your thesis
- How to use an extensive outline to be able to write your thesis "in one go"
- How to produce better figures and illustrations
- To define your best writing times and be most effective planning time
- How to prioritise and find a good balance between labwork and thesis writing time
- How to deal with distractions
- Scientific writing skills
- Time management skills
- How to avoid plagiarism
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Course content
5 sections • 9 lectures • 1h 59m total length
Requirements
- Be in in the process of (or close to) writing a master or PhD thesis
Description
In this course, you will learn a series of tools that will help you manage, plan and prioritise tasks around your thesis writing and academic writing in general. When the challenges come, you will be equipped with tools and ideas and that will make you so much more effective and will keep the writing process on track and smooth!
These are the fundamentals of successful thesis writing that you will learn in this course:
How to think of your thesis writing as a real project and use project and time management tools to organise it
How to prioritise important tasks and make the most of your peak performance time
How to come up with a sound scientific storyline for your thesis and define the core message
How to produce bulletproof, to-the-point figures that will be easy to understand
How to write scientific text that is simpler but effective and therefore much easier to understand and remember
How to draft a comprehensive outline that will allow you to write "in one go"
With these tools in mind and the exercises you will be going through to put the tools into action, you will be equipped with a very powerful toolset for your thesis writing and for academic writing in general. When the challenges come your way, you will know how to tackle them.
The aim of this course is to equip you with a toolset that will make your thesis writing systematic and therefore, smooth! And the end product will be so much better!
Who this course is for:
- PhD students that are about to graduate and are in the process of writing their thesis