report writing – Dr Lizzy Tanguay

What is an upgrade report (and how to write one)?

Two researchers working together at a laptop with notebooks by a sunny window

An upgrade report has two jobs, and you have to do both. What it is, how to write one, and where doctoral researchers tend to get stuck.

Transform deadlines into opportunities for creative triumph with a thinking aloud partner

Reframing writing deadlines with a thinking aloud partner

A ‘thinking aloud partner’ (or perhaps, a ‘thinking allowed partner’) inspired by Nancy Kline’s Time to Think and the work of Peter Elbow in Vernacular Eloquence, involves liberating assumptions and verbalising ideas.