Writing Well and Being Well for Your PhD and Beyond
How to Cultivate a Strong and Sustainable Writing Practice for Life
- 182 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Writing Well and Being Well for Your PhD and Beyond
How to Cultivate a Strong and Sustainable Writing Practice for Life
About this book
Prioritizing wellbeing alongside academic development, this book provides practical advice to help students write well, and be well, during their PhD and throughout their career.
In this unique book, Katherine Firth offers expert guidance on developing a writing practice and avoiding burnout, providing strategies and insights for developing a sustainable writing career beyond the PhD thesis. The book covers every stage of the academic writing process, from planning and researching, through getting words on the page, to the often unexpectedly time-consuming editing and polishing. Readers are reminded that writing a thesis is hard work, but it needn't be damaging work. Each chapter includes a toolbox of strategies and techniques, such as meditations, writing exercises and tips to maintain physical wellbeing, that will help doctoral candidates start writing and keep writing, without sacrificing their health, wellbeing or relationships.
Relevant at any stage of the writing process, this book will help doctoral students and early career researchers to produce great words that people want to read, examiners want to pass and editors want to publish.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half Title page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Series preface
- A note from the series editor
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Reading and thinking: Also part of the writing process
- 2 Planning: Getting to where you want to go
- 3 Writing: Getting the words onto the page
- 4 Recharging: Using rest to help you write
- 5 Editing: Getting your thesis into shape
- 6 Polishing: Making your thesis shine
- 7 Rewriting: Addressing feedback from yourself and others
- 8 Conclusion: Writing well is not the opposite of being well
- Index