what motivates you?

not wanting a PhD;

purpose of the PhD
overestimating what is required
procrastination
underestimating what is required
bad time management
Guardian (PhD planning) having a supervisor who does not know what is required
perfectionism http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2002/nov/08/highereducation.books

managing your life losing contact with your supervisor

too stressed to work
commitment not having a 'thesis' (i.e. position,
argument) to maintain
work-life balance
taking a new job before completing.
ignore supervisor's advice
expect supervisor to write your PhD relationship with supervisor
Submit an incomplete, poorly formatted bibliography
no ambition
Use phrases such as “some academics”
too much ambition or “all the literature”without mitigating
ambition
attempt perfect plan statements or references

insufficient reading ISDP Write an abstract without a sentence

claim gap in knowledge after reading 20 papers
literature review on a narrow body of work
not asking the important questions
copycat: "that thesis passed, I will do the same thing"
no theoretical foundation
believe you know everything
depressed when you find out you know very little
instrumental view of research
comparing yourself to others
resilience
confidence
willingness to accept critique
accept that setbacks are part of the process
starting “my original contribution to
How (not) to do a PhD knowledge is… ”
Fill the bibliography with references to
blogs, online journalism and textbooks
research Use discourse, ideology, signifier,
signified, interpellation, postmodernism,
THES (thesis mistakes) structuralism, post-structuralism or
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=410208 deconstruction without reading the
complete works of Foucault, Althusser,
Saussure, Baudrillard or Derrida
Assume something you are doing is new
because you have not read enough to
know that an academic wrote a book on it
20 years ago
Leave spelling mistakes in the script
personality
Make the topic of the thesis too large
Write a short, rushed, basic exegesis
Submit a PhD with a short introduction or conclusion

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