Doctoral writing classes significantly reduce feelings of anxiety among PhD candidates about receiving negative feedback or rejection while also improving research habits, a new study says. Lead author Barbara Sarnecka, professor of cognitive sciences at the University of California, Irvine, said she hoped that the study would provide much-needed evidence for the importance of this type of training …. [and] hoped that the study could debunk the misconception that “writing the dissertation happens separately from the other parts of the research.
 
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