When a PhD Gets Weird: Is “Rhetorical Astonishment” Even a Thing?
📅 Wed 5 August 2026 at 17:47 BST
The central idea behind a PhD is that the student conducts a piece of original research and makes a novel contribution to a field of study. As a consequence, the expectation is that by the end of the PhD, the student is the de-facto world expert in their particular research question. Sounds... awesome! But what no-one warned you about is how painfully isolating that process can be. To give you an example, as part of my PhD, I am creating a taxonomy of Arabic rhetorical devices. And for t…[Continue reading...]
