Writing Coaching Groups
Writing coaching groups for doctoral students can offer the support and encouragement they need to complete their PhD thesis.
Managing the writing process
While working on your thesis, write in bite-sized chunks of an hour or so, and deal with other tasks in your breaks. You can achieve a lot in three of fours hours of writing a day.
How was it for you? Accepting feedback
When you first receive feedback, you will probably focus on the negative aspects, but read it again slowly and take note of constructive criticism.
Seeing the obstacle as a gift
If you stumble across an obstacle in your writing, see if you can embrace it and incorporate it into your work;
A page, a paragraph, a sentence: keeping your focus
Sometimes, it's hard to see the wood for the trees in your writing. Here's a way of achieving an overview of your project to help to keep you on track.
Get on with it
Writing may be hard mental work but the graft and the craft need to be enjoyed too.
Storyboarding: using pictures to unlock words
A visual approach using storyboarding can be invaluable for planning a writing assignment
Print it out!
Always print out your work before you submit it - I guarantee you'll spot mistakes you hadn't noticed on screen.
Creative insight
Freewriting for a few minutes can help you to break through writer's block and achieve fresh insight. It is helpful for problem solving in general.