Do we have a hashtag for academic advice? Mine today is:
Keep in mind that while it’s nice to write narratively, a dissertation is fundamentally a “prove yourself” exercise and readers (committee) want to see you demonstrating knowledge of a body of secondary literature and then placing your study within it. In other words, you’ll need to be a bit heavyhanded with wielding literature to satisfy the genre requirement.
@inquiline@academicchatter exactly. At some point a friend of mine told me "in the end, a phd thesis is an exercise and you need to show that you can do it.". It was a very helpful sentence that I kept reminding myself when I was struggling with it.
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