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Diane Dechief

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Faculty Lecturer, The °Ä¿Í¾º²Ê Writing Centre

Q: What do you do when you are struggling with a particular point in your writing?

A: At certain stages while writing my dissertation, I found myself struggling. I developed these two strategies to help me power through—you can adapt them for your own needs.

The blueprint. This first technique helped me to better structure my writing. As I began a new chapter, I often faltered, but the technique that I used to resolve this was to