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Worksheets
- 10 Reasons to Finish My PhD (PDF)
- 12-Week Sprint Planner (PDF)
- ABCDE Worksheet (PDF)
- The 30-Day Challenge (PDF)
- The Circle of Control (PDF)
- Completion Checklist (PDF)
- Completion Planner (PDF)
- Distraction Log (PDF)
- Eisenhower Matrix (PDF)
- PhD Supervision Meeting Agenda (MS Word)
- SWOT Analysis (PDF)
- Weekly Planner (PDF)
- Writing Audit (MS Word)
Further Reading
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Books on Productivity and Focus
David Allen, Getting Things Done
Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing
Chris Bailey, Hyperfocus
James Clear, Atomic Habits
Dale Carnegie, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
Stephen R. Covey, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
Carol Dweck, Mindset
Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
Brian P. Moran and Michael Lennington, The 12 Week Year
Cal Newport, Deep Work
Cal Newport, Digital Minimalism
Steve Peters, The Chimp Paradox
Stephen Pressfield, The War of Art
Martin Seligman, Authentic Happiness
Martin Seligman, Learned Optimism
Books on Academic Writing
Patrick Dunleavy, Authoring a PhD
Rowena Murray, How to Write a Thesis
Diana Ridley, The Literature Review
Helen Sword, Stylish Academic Writing
Larry Trask, The Penguin Guide to Punctuation
Journal Articles
Johnston, S., ‘Examining the Examiners: An Analysis of Examiners’ Reports on Doctoral Theses’, Studies in Higher Education, 22.3 (1997), 333–47.
Mark, Gloria, ‘The Cost of Interrupted Work: More Speed and Stress‘, CHI ’08: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, April 2008, 107-110.
Mullins, Gerry, and Margaret Kiley, ‘“It’s a PhD, Not a Nobel Prize”: How Experienced Examiners Assess Research Theses’, Studies in Higher Education, 27.4 (2002), 369–86.
Websites
The Thesis Whisperer (the original and the best blog about doing a PhD)
ThinkWell (planners, worksheets, and much more)
Patter (Pat Thomson’s blog)
Explorations of Style (blog about academic writing)
Tools
BrainFocus (Pomodoro timer)
Focusmate (get someone to spy on you while you’re writing)
RescueTime (find out exactly how long you’re spending on Twitter)
