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The last phase of PhD is a particularly demanding period: You need to finish your research work, write your thesis — and plan the next steps. Interestingly, there is one approach that will greatly help you with both finishing your thesis and figuring out your next career move.

Second interview with Marly about her slip-box method of taking notes for her PhD research and managing writing projects in Obsidian. She is showing us all the advanced tricks that make her work even more efficient and describes how this system boosts her motivation and endurance.

How do you write your scientific texts? Do you block off a whole day and barricade yourself at home or a library so you can properly focus? Or do you try to use shorter times like your daily commute or gaps in your schedule, maybe because that’s all you’ve got? Both strategies — binge writing and snack writing, as they are typically called — have their pros and cons. Read on and learn when to choose which approach and how to combine them for the best result.

Summertime can be a great opportunity for your scientific writing: There are no seminars and meetings, and it gets quiet as colleagues leave for holidays. These are the perfect conditions for focused work — if we would only use them and not waste our time with procrastination and unimportant busywork. This article shows you how you can make the best of it and accomplish your scientific writing goals this summer.

STEM and humanities have distinct research cultures including vastly different writing and publishing conventions. Knowing about these differences is important for successful interdisciplinary collaborations as well as for picking the right writing advice, course or trainer. This article provides a generalized overview based on anecdotal evidence.

Have you published a couple of papers and now need to turn them into a thesis? Or you have a thesis that should become a paper? The need to revamp a text into a new format is quite common. But how to approach this project and not get overwhelmed? And what about copyright and self-plagiarism? The following strategies show you a path and help you avoid the frustration.