![]() Second, you will read a lot of material in a PhD and you have to persevere. This is not only my belief or opinion here but the opinions of countless people who read it. Why? first I believe that this article contains very useful advice. I think these articles speak to a part of their academic souls which they liked and have nostalgia for: the part of your soul as an academic that you had when you just started as a researcher: pure intent and “ innocence”.īefore you start reading this very long article, Yep it is long! I know! it is worth it! you need to know with certitude that you really want to do a PhD! Actually as a actual litmus test: if you can not read this whole article till the very end and hang in there, you are probably not suitable for a PhD. I believe (it is my opinion here) – Yep! I am sorry! I do a lot of annoying introspection & extrospection – I believe that the fact that these articles are recommended is maybe due to the fact that my articles remind many academics of their difficult time when they were PhD candidates and the suffering, the departmental weird politics and sometimes the hypocrisy, conflict of interests and abuse of power that they had to deal with on a daily basis. Complete books are written full of non-sense! I have never ever imagined at all that this article and the article on literature review are now recommended readings suggested by numerous supervisors & lecturers to their current or prospective PhD candidates. People are really tired these days of all the twisted fake or appease-like hedging language that leads nowhere and is pure non-sense and a waste of time. Many lovely academics (staff, supervisors, lecturers) and many PhD candidates from the University of St Andrews, University of Dundee, University of Abertay Dundee, University of Edinburgh, University of Glasgow, University of Aberdeen, University of Manchester among many others, who absolutely loved these articles, have told me that my writing speaks truth without any pathetic sugar-coated language or any form of equivocation and I believe this is what the reader really wants at the end of the day, especially people who want to embark on a very long PhD. This article is down to earth and talks with guts so if you don’t like that style, well! I am afraid I can not do anything about that. I have already wasted a lot of time on these articles anyway! ![]() All I am asking is a good karma back! Believe me there is nothing here for myself. The kind of people who have every single advantage that a human being can have! These articles are purposed for the disadvantaged. These articles are not meant nor dedicated for the spoiled people that have been eating all their lives with golden spoons. I want them to be prepared both emotionally and intellectually. Now why am I sharing this advice? I always picture in my mind somebody who is frustrated in a disadvantaged third world country sitting down on his or her PC maybe in an Internet Cafe in a poor village, reading these articles. I have put a lot of advice from supervisors also. The advice in these articles is priceless! This is true! The advice compacts my 4 years of PhD experience and in similar vein compacts what I have learned from the experiences of numerous PhD candidates & researchers that I have been in contact with. the PhD skills article), the literature review article and the PhD assessment and Viva Voce preparation article into a commercial book or at least I should publish them in prestigious educational journals. Furthermore, I wish I had someone like me in the past to tell me about the unwritten esoteric rules of academic life, about PhDs tacit rules, about supervisors & their personality types and about departmental politics and of course about some of the hypocrisy that people might encounter even in the top universities in the UK.Ī lot of people are wondering why I am sharing this advice like that freely? Many told me that I should include this article (i.e. I wish someone could have told me what are the necessary set of tangibleskills that I definitely need to know so I can prepare and learn them before I begin to do a PhD. I wish I had someone like me in the past to tell me about the material presented in this article.
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