Thank you for buying or borrowing a copy of How to Finish Your PhD. If you don’t yet have one, you can find out more information and read a sample chapter.
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
(contains affiliate links)
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)
- The Academic Phrasebank
Tools
- BrainFocus (Pomodoro timer)
- Focusmate (get someone to spy on you while you’re writing)
- Grammarly
- RescueTime (find out exactly how long you’re spending on social media)