This 10 page booklet written by Hugh Kearns and Maria Gardiner is now available for loan from the Learning, Language and Research Skills resource collection, located at Student Services on the 2nd floor of the Guild Village. This booklet lists “the 7 secrets”, asks you to rate your effectiveness on each, provides suggestions for improvement and a challenge to set yourself further goals.
The 7 secrets are:
- “care and maintenance of your supervisor
- write and show as you go: this is show and tell, not hide and seek
- be realistic: it’s not a Nobel Prize
- Say no to distractions: even the fun one and the ones you think you must do
- it’s a job: that means working nine to five but you get holidays
- get help: you are not an owner-operator single business person
- you can do it: a PhD is 90% persistence and 10% intelligence”
An audio recording of "The 7 Secrets" workshop that was held at UWA on 12th September 2006 is available from http://www.postgraduate.uwa.edu.au/home/current. This was an interactive workshop based on discussion, so the first 13 minutes of the recording are a bit hard to hear, but from that point on the recording is quite clear.