In this blog post, I discuss some of these important points. These mainly include: 1). Managing time effectively, 2). Choosing a supervisor carefully, 3). Maintaining patient, 4) Remaining focused and finally 5). Assuming a lead role

In this blog, I will share my experiences with the novice Ph.D. scholars; how they can complete their PhD studies, in time. The aim is to give useful insight to the students about the mistakes I committed during the course of my Ph.D. studies so that they do not repeat it. At the same time, this article will offer some helpful instructions for the scholars, especially, on those areas which I did fantastically well, so that they may learn about those as well.

This blog post covers the following important areas: 1. How to start writing the research proposal? 2. How to write a good research proposal?. 3. What is a research proposal? 4. Requirements of the research proposal 5. Purpose of the research proposal 6. Format of the research proposal

The main aim of this article is to share my insight with novice researchers and offer some useful guidance to the PhD scholars to anticipate the challenges in writing a PhD Research Proposal so that they may be able to complete this initial step positively and proactively. Using a snowball sampling approach, my discussion with around fifteen such Ph.D. scholars of different universities revealed the underlying reasons for the problem on hand.

In this blog post, I discuss some of the common expectations of the PhD scholars. Some of these proved to be true. However, most of them remained unrealistic, misplaced and highly romantic.