I have a thesis title ‘The construction of shared knowledge through asynchronous dialogue’. And I’m giving notice of intention to submit. Yay! 23 January – that’s my submission date.
Just watched a Ted Talk by David S Rose on producing a business pitch. Thought I could apply it to writing my thesis introduction. So the intro should start like a rocket, grabbing readers’ attention, and then it should take a solid, steady upward path. Start with a title, and then an attention-grabbing introduction. Give [...]
Sometimes citations drive me crazy. I’m just correcting one Plato, & Emlyn-Hughes, C. (Eds.). (2005). Early Socratic Dialogues. Harmondsworth: Penguin. Eagle-eyed readers will spot several things wrong with this citation, as my supervisors did. You may have noticed that Emlyn Hughes was probably an unlikely editor of classical philosophy. However, that example of my mind [...]
I’m thinking about the conclusion to my PhD, so I’ve returned to the literature on what examiners are looking for. Stephen Potter’s book ‘Doing Postgraduate Research’ contains a list of potential viva questions, so I’m going to think about how I could answer those, and then see which elements of my answers will fit comfortably [...]