Day one (creation of the blog)

Writing - how to start..

The life of PhD student can become quite lonely at times and I thought it's time I found my own blog! I have no idea yet as to who will potentially read it but I am hoping that fellow grad students might like to share their thoughts about making it through their PhDs - as they most likely also have days when they would like to have their ideas commented and refreshed with new input. I will start by telling what it's like to write my first manuscript!! Exciting!



This is how it looks outside my house while
I'm trapped inside with my computer,
a huge cup of tea and a blanket.

First, I started with the introduction. I do have a general idea what will go there: I want to first explain why my topic is important. Although there are many who research the field I do, there are not many (or maybe any) who's doing it exactly the same way I am. So there is a need for this work - this is my main message in the introduction.

Then a technical thing: putting the citations in place is a tedious task..! But luckily I am learning to use EndNote, and managed to download my citations there. Now this task is a lot easier!

Together with the intro I am building the materials and methods. This is meant to be there so anybody can reproduce the study I did, and so enough detail is needed.

Let's see how it goes from here onwards!