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Guest Post: Breaking the Writing Block

I find this as something that is worthy to be shared. A lot of students are really facing the problem of writers block.

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Rod Pitcher is a PhD student in Education at The Centre  for Educational Development and Academic Methods at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. The focus of his study is the metaphors that doctoral students use when describing their research and other matters related to their studies. His profile is at http://cedam.anu.edu.au/people/rod-pitcher.

Not being able to work is the curse of the PhD student. And writer’s block is one of the worst to deal with. We all get it. Usually, there’s no reason apart from the inability to settle down and work. My supervisor told me that the way to beat not being able to write is to follow the ‘take one small step’ procedure. She told me that to get myself writing again I should take one small first step. This method works in breaking through writers’ block and similar problems. I know because I’ve used it.

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Online Dissertation Writing Provider: A Help or A Traitor in Disguise

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There are lots of companies that claim to be a genuine essay and dissertation writing companies targeting to serve the Americas, UK and other European and American countries. Essay or dissertation writing companies offers a wide variety of services such as dissertation editing, dissertation proofreading, dissertation consultation and many other more specific writing task such as dissertation rewriting and dissertation formatting. Too good to be true to have someone to help us in our burden but the question: is dissertation writing provider really a help?

Help is a subjective term (at least for me). A help to one person may be a burden to the other. Take for example the idea of “tough love” to known speaker John Foppe. The first time John knows that his parents is not helping him anymore in changing his cloths he felt that he was abandoned. How can a person with no hands do the task. Yet doing that task himself make him stand as a person and he was able to adopt and live the life that he has to live. Same is true with dissertation writing, if we are not going to learn to do the task then we may not be able to learn to do writing at all.

One of the downsides of getting an online dissertation writing provider is dependency. There is a great chance that since a provider is really excellent in doing the dissertation that his work does not need any quality control editing then it would make the student just copy it and take it as his own without even doing further research on the topic that he has on hand. Being enticed to get 20%, 25%, 30% or even 50% discount when ordering a dissertation writing service will really grab the attention of any student.

In the end, getting online dissertation writing provider is a call to each student. Perhaps getting a dissertation editing or thesis help may not be bad at all but once he became dependent in it, he may not learn to write at all.

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The Basics of Writing your Dissertation Structure

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The final dissertation is plagued with a lot of firsts. There goes the coming up of a good dissertation topic, as well as, the preparation of your thesis statement. And who could forget about the dissertation structure?

Fortunately, unlike the other mentioned firsts, the structure requires less brain work; most of it comes from the specifics your institution prescribes for your final piece. In other words, you don’t have to spend a significant amount of work to devise the structure.

The basics of writing the dissertation structure consist of these two:

  1. Pick the default structure-components

  2. Choose body-specific components

The first fundamental will range from the Title Page to Definitions. The second fundamental, however, takes a lot of consideration, as they need to be a necessity to gain a spot in your piece. It might involve an Introduction to be paired with a Conclusion, or a Discussions part to accommodate the elaborations for the Results and Analysis.

To ensure that you have not missed any crucial component or are only keeping all functional components, take your drafted dissertation structure to your supervisor. Perhaps, he or she can tell which among your structure component is really useful and which can be readily discarded. Moreover, don’t shy away from asking why something is discarded or added.

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Coming up with a strong dissertation structure is of paramount significance as coming up with a good dissertation topic or honing your final thesis statement. The structure ensures that you cover as much as you need to cover. It also helps you avoid missing any chapter for your dissertation.

However, students should also approach a structure as flexibly as possible. There are going to be times of which will show you that another chapter is necessary and, therefore, needs to be added, or weeded off.

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Making it Easier to Write Law Dissertations

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Writing law dissertations and law essays are already part of the expectations for a student who is taking up law. These tasks are generally not considered as easy, especially law dissertations because of the project’s complicated nature. So what can a student do to make the process easier and if possible, even integrate a sense of fun into the activity?

  • Motivate yourself. For a student who has been repeatedly doing the same things which are reading, writing and analysing for years, boredom and fatigue would eventually set in. This can cause a student to submit shoddy law essays and law dissertations or not to submit them altogether. How do you prevent this from happening? The answer is through motivation, aiming to finish your tasks because you want to see yourself finally earning a law degree and gaining the respect that a lawyer commands and earning on your own, or simply so you can finally be rid of the long study nights and seemingly endless examinations and coursework assignments. Others do it so they can help their families or the less fortunate of society fight costly legal battles.
  • Make the right choices. As difficult as the prospect of writing law dissertations seem, one good thing about it that you can take advantage of is that it allows you to make choices. When you do, strive to make logical and practical choices without sacrificing the quality of your work. Perhaps the most important choice you will make involves your dissertation topic. You should find one which deeply captures your interest, is neither too narrow nor too complicated, and has enough resource materials that you can use to support your thesis statement, discussion and analysis. A good dissertation topic should also help you bring more knowledge to a chosen field of study.

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  • Create a plan. Any endeavour, especially a complicated one such as law dissertations, always has a better chance of being successful if you created a good plan for it. The plan serves as your guide or roadmap to ensure that all aspects of the project are completed successfully and on time.
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Thoughts on the movie Spring Breakers

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* “Spring break forever” is a refrain in the movie, but spring break forever is actually hell. You need “normal” life to contextualize the party and make it special. Not every day can be a festival if a “festival” is to have any meaning. Tucker Max says in Hilarity Ensures that he “worked in Cancun, Mexico for six full weeks during my second year at Duke Law School” and by the end he says “Cancun beat me, like it eventually beats everyone.”

* A lot of the people in the theater were laughing, and so was I, because the absurdity of the movie. Is this a New York cynicism thing? Would the theater have been laughing in Oklahoma or Kansas? It was hard to tell if most of the movie was supposed to be funny.

* I don’t grok in fullness the spring break ideal, because to the extent I…

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Dream of becoming a published author? Read this

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Yes, it’s great. It’s really exciting. It is.

But then there’s this:

Drug-addicted beauty writer Cat Marnell has landed a book deal with Simon & Schuster for her memoir, “How to Murder Your Life.” Marnell, who has been in and out of rehab for her addiction to prescription drugs, famously told us she’d rather “smoke angel dust with her friends” than hold down a full-time job after being fired from Jane Pratt’s Web site, xoJane.com. Now she has chronicled her sexual and narcotic adventures in a book, to include her life as a spoiled rich kid of a psychiatrist and a psychoanalyst and her drug-fueled rise through Condé Nast, xoJane.com and Vice magazine…The proposal details her numerous sexual conquests [and] four abortions.

Because, you know, get-up-wash-face-work-hard-sleep-repeat is so…..vanilla. Who cares?

And then there’s the inevitable email I got yesterday, giving me 25 days to buy back several thousand unsold…

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The Fun Side of Dissertation Writing

Dissertation writing is a complicated and challenging project that will require many students to seek dissertation help from an online dissertation writing provider. However, this service does not come cheap and there is a possibility of plagiarism detection if the writer commissioned did not cite his or her sources. Hence, most students still choose to do their own dissertation writing. If they do need dissertation help, they will just maximise the guidance of their dissertation supervisor.

 

For those who are brave enough to undertake dissertation writing on their own, there are simple activities that will help take the stress and monotony of dissertation writing away:

 

  • Try your hand at creative writing. If dissertation writing requires formal language and writing style, try an informal approach by making a poem about your dissertation topic, making creative chapter titles, or draw a metaphor of the dissertation topic or even the writing process itself. You may even think of dissertation jokes. This conditions your mind to still think about the dissertation, but without the psychological mindset of it being boring and tedious.

  • Document your dissertation writing process. Take a picture of the environment where you do your writing—be it your room, a café or a quiet hideaway with a good view of nature. Write about the setting and what you were feeling while coming up with dissertation ideas or thinking about possible dissertation topics in a dissertation journal. You can eventually compile your pictures and notes and so that when the project is finished, you can make a slide show. If you are the type who likes to listen to music while thinking and writing, you can accompany the presentation with songs that remind you of these times. This makes you remember your ideas better because it is accompanied by pleasant thoughts. It also adds more meaning to the sense of accomplishment that you will feel when you have completed the dissertation project.

  • Bring colour and design into the writing project. Make a scrapbook of special or memorable events related to the project, have your friends write inspiring messages to encourage you to finish the task. Write on this using pens of various colours, glitter, crayons, and even cut-outs from newspapers and magazines. This will provide you with a mindset that will make you look forward to tackle your project even if you do not find joy in the dissertation writing itself.

When you ask for dissertation help from your supervisor or a trusted friend or mentor, the chat that invariably comes along with it will also make it an activity to look forward to.