Tag: critical reflexive
I completed my VIVA in January 2026, and I wrote pretty extensively in a previous post titled How I survived my viva and PhD thesis defence in creative writing about how I prepared. The preparation phase is the most dominant part of the PhD journey. It’s the one we all fear. So, even though I […]
It took me a long time to figure out what a critical reflexive was. When I began my doctoral studies in creative writing, I had (wrongly) interpreted the critical reflexive as an essay, therefore my original attempts after year one were very incorrect. I thought I was supposed to create some kind of academic analysis […]

