Take the following ingredients.… The classic first words of every recipe. I received a recipe via Marc Koper on how to write a paper. He didn’t cook it up himself, but George Whitesides did, a Professor of Chemistry at Harvard University. His recipe is intended for chemistry, but is also very…
I am really jealous of people who can breast crawl. They can swim much faster and with less effort than I can. I can only swim using the breaststroke. As a child, I was very allergic to chlorine so I couldn’t join any swimming lessons. I never learned how to…
So many emails. I don’t think I know anybody who doesn’t complain about having to plough through so many emails every day. And the hassle that comes with it. The misunderstandings, the frustration if you don’t get a reply. I gathered some handy tips to deal with your emails. Ten…
Writing is for most PhD students an issue. Maybe it is even the biggest obstacle and for many the main reason for delay. In my blogs you will find various tips about writing. Today I would like to show you an app that could help, it is questionable though if…
You probably know it: you had planned to write, you were totally ready. You were mentally prepared….. Nothing was in the way of writing. It doesn’t work…. And still, it doesn’t work. Before you know it, all the hours you had reserved are gone and you have to do other…
Is your writing in need of a diet? It is really hard to write good texts. The reason some academic prose is so hard to read is because it is too ‘heavy’: it has too many passives, prepositions, adjectives and other complex grammar constructions. In short: it needs to lose…
