Memulakan penulisan thesis Phd

Hari ni dengan semangat baru...bernekad untuk memulakan penulisan thesis phd. Walaupun sebenarnya supervisor dah beranggapan sudah lama penulisan itu dimulakan. Namun perbagai halangan yg menghalangan ianya dimulakan. Antara halangan yg paling besar adalah analisa data menggunakan SEM. Walaupun sehingga sekarang ianya tidak complete 100% tapi rasanya dah mula boleh bernafas dengan tenang sikit..kerana penyelesaian sudah hampir. Oleh itu, penulisan thesis perlu bermula sekarang kerana bukan mudah untuk menulis dengan baik. Bila menulis halangan penulisan lebih hebat kerana banyak benda yang kita tak tahu yang perlu kita korek hingga ke akar umbinya. Sebelum memulakan penulisan..perlu dikutip terlebih dahulu tips2 penulisan dr org lain. Antara info yang di perolehi yang rasanya amat berguna ialah..."cuba menulis 5 muka surat sehari"..untuk dapatkan thesis phd dalam lingkungan 200-300 muka surat hanya memerlukan 60 hari iaitu bersamaan 2 bulan. Nampak mudah....tapi hakikatnya aku belum tempuh. Selain dr itu ada beberapa tips dr org lain yg terdapat diinternet seperti dibawah untuk berjaya dalam phd:

1.Your supervisor(s)

• Keep your priorities in mind first
• Have regular meetings, even if you’ve done nothing
• Have an agenda
• Email them before (agenda) and after the meeting (follow up)
• Be gently persistent

2.Write and Show as you go

• (it’s not hide and seek)
• Writing is not recording
• Write before you are ready
• Write early and often
• Write for 2 hours every day, preferably in the morning (this was a big tip, they even said if you wrote intensively for 2 hours every working day of the year, for three years that you were guaranteed to get your thesis done).
• When doing the 2 hour writing ‘nail your feet to the floor’- no email, no checking weather etc, not checking references- just writing, even if its ‘not good’ or you don’t feel ready . This is an exercise aimed at getting you into the habit of writing and getting over the anxiety or avoidance of writing.
• Keep in mind you are not your thesis.
• You are growing a ‘PhD brain’ so it’s going to be hard, this doesn’t mean you’re doing in wrong.
• If the red pen is too scary for you, write in green pen and ask your supervisors to do the same.
  

3. Be realistic

• it’s not a Nobel prize
• Perfectionism is dangerous: ’the best is the enemy of the good’.
• Is not a cure for cancer
• Imposter syndrome (most academics feel like they’re a fraud)
• Academic culture (learn that criticism is a part of this)
• You are learning how to do research
• Just because you feel bad, does mean it is bad: ‘feeling are not facts’.

4. Say no to distractions

• Students are very good at finding ‘displacement activities’ (i.e. distractions).
• Do not turn on your emails first thing in the morning.
• Make your most important PhD task the very first thing you do once you start work.
• Set specific times for checking emails and doing ‘other stuff’
• Multi-tasking can give your brain the same effect as a cognitive impairment ‘makes you dopey’.

5. Your PhD is a job

• That means working 9-5, but you get holidays
• If you know when to work, then you know when not to work. This means you can guilt free switch off your brain. You will get more done this way.

6. Get help

• You are not an owner-operator single person business!
• It’s okay together help for editing, formatting, statistics, transcribing, collecting and entering data and for methods consultation.
• Takes far too much time trying to figure things out for yourself.

7. You can do it

• A PhD is 90 percent persistence and 10 percent intelligence.
• Less than 1 percent of PhD students fail but 35 percent don’t complete
• Usual completion rate (Australia) is 3.5-4 years
• Need to persevere.

Aku hanya ada 7 bulan dr sekarang untuk selesaikan segala macam proses dalam phd. Sempat atau tidak bergantung kepada rezeki dan bantuan Allah. Hanya Dia lebih tahu dan hanya perancangan Allah yang terbaik. Namun usaha perlu ditingkatkan. Jika segalanya dapat diselesaikan hingga bulan Disember tahun ini, maka perjalanan phd aku hanya mengambil masa 3 tahun. Adakah ianya akan menjadi kenyataan..hanya Allah yg tahu. Aku mohon segalanya dipermudahkan. Amin