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One year ago today, I created this blog and posted my first entry. To mark this date, I had hoped to be able to write something reflexive on how blogging has helped with regards my life as a PhD student over the last year. However, given that I’ve recently had to apply for an extension in order to finish my thesis, I’ve simply not had the time! I cannot stress enough though, how useful I think blogging is for the graduate student: it forces you to write regularly, and not always in an academic style – two aspects which I think epitomise the necessity of blogging in the current graduate student environment.
In lieu of my own more detailed reflection on the usefulness of blogging, I’ve decided to post a couple of links to recent posts that themselves address this issue. Ellen C. Spaeth has also recently blogged about her blog’s life in the first year; you can read her post here. See also the list – still being compiled – of reasons you should blog about your research over on The Sociological Imagination blog; read it here.
Over on Twitter today, I’ll be posting links to a few of my posts over the last year. Happy reading!
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