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  1. Who is actually searching videos on how to study instead of actually studying lol šŸ™ˆ
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  2. I like when someone have a smiley face and explain same time.
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  3. Holy crap you look like Ramsay Bolton (Iwan Rheon) from Game of Thrones! Great video, thanks for sdharing.
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  4. Iā€™m doing my summer hw and I forgot how to make an introšŸ¤£
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  5. If Ramsey Snow would have pursued a career in literature instead of torturing people xD
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  6. Could you please, move 5 km away from the camera Thank you!
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  7. I'm currently facing the challenge of writing my first (extensive) theatre analysis for uni and watching some of your videos has been really, really useful. Keep doing what you're doing.
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  8. One can see the smartness in his eyes. Disgusting! Just kidding, thank you for your work!
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  9. Hi Tom, Yay! I am happy that I found your channel. I've been looking for this such technical sharing. Good to know how other people doing in 'technical' part of PhD like organising journal articles, reviewing literature, note taking, writing research paper, etc. Not so many people share their methods and I'm glad I found yours. Just subscribed and looking forward for more updates! cheers
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  10. Please keep the music out of these videos, theyā€™re extremely helpful but I find the music to be very grating. Iā€™d much rather just listen to your voice! Other than that, keep up the good work
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  11. This was really informative and you're so charming!
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  12. Thanks Dudley Dursley!
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  13. Writing on Kane's Blasted for an exam at university and I've got to say this video has been far more insightful than any of my lecturers take on it! Thank you for the great summary and analysis, super useful :-)
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  14. All great tips. I work as a writing tutor at my college, and I see so many essays that start with just a vague statement about the topic "Blank is a very important issue in our society." Might have to use this video in some of my sessions to give students some options!
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  15. Heā€™s not too close to the camera, maybe yā€™all are too close to your screen šŸ§
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  16. I agree with you that Tony Kushner is probably in the running to be our greatest living American playwright. Certainly the play holds up even after decades. I disagree totally with Kushner's concept of God withdrawing from his creation. A Catholic response (which happens to be my faith tradition) advances the idea of a God who embraces suffering to oppose and triumph over sin. While I have no argument with his political analysis. The question I ask is what kind of a society do we have that allows two such men as Roy Cohn and Donald Trump to rise to power?
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  17. Thanks this video really helped me out
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  18. Thanks for taking your time to share with us those awesome note taking methods that makes learning very easy and enjoyable. Thank you
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  19. sooooooo many thanks to your sharing! I feel so lucky that I found your channel at the beginning of my senior year! This is life-saving!!!
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  20. This is such a quality and interesting video. Thank you so much for being so informative in a capturing manner that makes me love this play even more. I would love to see more videos like these. I also really love how passionate you clearly are about dramatic literature, it's really a great thing to see.
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  21. My second time watching this video to refresh my mind in part of my journey in searching academic literature for my new research. Helpful as always!
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  22. Thank you for your good work, I am going to start my essay with your tips.
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  23. This is a very interesting videoā€¦ I'm so glad I stumbled upon it! I actually just saw a touring production of Hamilton today, and have been thinking about the subtle differences from the performances of the Philip tour versus the original Broadway cast and the videos that I've seen on YouTube. Of course these actors put their own flavor onto the role, but you're rightā€¦ The patrons including myself come to see Hamilton based on what we've heard about it, on the album, and with some expectations built in, so over all we are happy to see The show that we expected! That saidā€¦ As you can well imagine, I am not from New York and I don't have a big background of seeing live theaterā€¦ So I probably don't have the same appreciation or expectation that a diehard or hard-core musical theater fan might with regards to variations in performance. Still, it is an interesting concept and will keep it in mind...thanks!
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  24. You are an adorable human! Thank you for all the tips!
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  25. Writing an essay on Blasted right now and this has been a huge help. If only my tutors could articulate these ideas in a similar way. Thank you!
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  26. Loved this video, and love Epic Theatre. Keep on making these videos Tom, I feel like I'm learning a lot that I wouldn't have known otherwise!
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  27. Cool video! One thing I would like to add: I have the impression that the UK is less familiar with postdramatic theatre, partly because of itsĀ strong literary/dramatic tradition. In Holland, Belgium and Germany, however, I would say that the postdramatic theatreĀ actually forms theĀ basis ofĀ mainstream theatre making. Even in performances you couldĀ label as 'dramatic',Ā you can still see a lot of postdramatic elements that Lehmann describes in his book.Ā VeryĀ interesting (though difficult) book in my opinion, as it separates drama from theatre and expands the notion of what theatre can be. Ā Keep up the good work! ;)
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  28. you look like Ramsey Bolton
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  29. Thank you, thank you, thank you for your videos!! Your videos are really helpful. They are concise, clear, and relevant for starters in research like me :)
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  30. Such a fantastically informative video! Thanks so much Tom! I found this highly useful as I'm writing my dissertation on Angels in America, having fell in love with it after a quick google search of America's most famous plays haha. I was wondering, did you find any sources particularly helpful in making this video? (eg. books/articles on Brecht's epic theatre?) Thanks again! Keep up the great work xo
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  31. This was tremendously helpful. Thank you!
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  32. Thank you so much! Can you please do a video for beginners? Like how to narrow down your topic, start researching, readings, publucations, etc.
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  33. Got exam tomorrow... helpful
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  34. Fab video. I think this is so relevant and SO apparent in the current MT industry. When working professionally I found it increasingly frustrating how new talent was expected to "fit in to the shoes" of the previous actor playing the part. It feels like there is very little room for creative input from the performers in the process of rehearsal when commercial musical theatre is being produced. I would go as far as saying all "well paid" jobs are prescribed with little wiggle room for artistic licence - something that is very frustrating when you have crippled yourself financially simply to "unlock your creative potential" at a high end drama school... *sigh. I think its down to the fact that people want to spend their money on something that they can get satisfaction from and by buying into a brand you are in the comfort zone of satisfaction. Personally I don't think that is what theatre is about. Leaving a theatre hating a production but having a meaty chat about the piece is so much more constructive than "well that was fantastic!" - "Yeah, well we knew it would be" Why are theatre companies doing this? - look at who owns these productions. MT is becoming another branch of the Hollywood tree, a cash cow with a worldwide audience willing to throw their monies into the pot to distract themselves from progressive independent thinking. I hope I don't sound too cynical lols.
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  35. Concise, Creative, and Explosive. Thank You
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  36. Excellent delivery! Cery clear, articulate, and good pace. Bring down music vol a touch (and vary). Perhaps open with an overview of the video's contents (thread of key ideas). Perfect conceptual level. Use of paper effect fantastic in overview of dialectics. Keep it up! You're great!
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  37. Enjoyed your discussion. "Angels' has been a center for me as a gay America since the first time I saw it. I think it's important to note that according to Kushner interviews, the Angle was a hallucination for Prior more than some sort of realism as was Ethel Rosenberg for Roy Cohn. I wonder how many Brits have seen the HBO series . The cast is really beyond wonderful. Kucher also did the screen play adaptation for it...six hour long segments.
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  38. Thanks man. I was lost. This video brought me to the grownd. I'll be coming back for more tips.
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  39. Just the video I need for my on line Masters program's 2nd week. Because I'm not use to doing paperless research, this will help me come up to speed with acquiring articles quickly so that I'm not wasting a lot of study time. I'm so glad to hear about "Google Scholar". The 1st article I searched for in my school's database was on available to professional association members, so that was a drag. I'm hoping this video will lead to quickly accessing university articles too. Thanks for posting!
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  40. Thank you for the video! Clear clear and informative, I can tell you are a great teacher! You have a new subscriber!
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  41. Excellent video. David Suchet does the American accent perfectly. Is the full production available on video?
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  42. It would be better if there is no backround music
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  43. This analysis is fucking amazing
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  44. Thank a lot Tom, I am doing my master thesis by using onenote and google keep. I organized articles according to my thesis topics .I gather about 45 article, now thinking to read and take notes each of them šŸ™ˆ seems too much time and effort !šŸ˜”šŸ¤”That's a long way, wish me luck !
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  45. Thank you, it was very instructing, I really liked your analysis :)
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  46. The excellent tool I use every time is Zotero. More than amazing.
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  47. So happy I've found your channel šŸ’œ
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  48. Brilliant. Curious to know which writing software do you use to write your thesis? Pages or Word?
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  49. I have room in my heat for both. I certainly was blown away by John Doyle's version of "Company" very different and for me more exciting than the original. There are more I could list like this one.
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  50. Thanks for the analysis. I am yet to see part two but I also kinda fell in love with Kushner. Still annoyed that Hampstead cancelled my performance of iHo like 8 months ago :-D
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  51. Hi Tom, thanks a lot. Its not just the resource have enjoyed but your energy and passion regarding what you do. Am really inspired, Keep it up!!!
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  52. Louis Ironson, Marxist? Hmmmm. Them's fightin' words...
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  53. Nice video. The music makes me think of some hidden camera/prank video though :D
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  54. One of the best PhD Vlogs really, after Jake Wright's early PhD vlogs and Simon Clark very early vlogs. One suggestion though: Pause the background music when you're talking. Great Job, Tom.
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  55. Thanks. Last night I saw the Israeli premiere of Blasted. (in 2004 there was a reading of it in Tel Aviv). It was: wow.
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  56. I'm working on my master's and you are awesome.
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  57. Quality information! šŸ™
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  58. Hi, Tom! Thank you for this video! I wish to contribute with this video... can I make you a portuguese subtitle, so I can share this with some of my colleagues? I
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  59. Enjoyed this. Am researching Ibsen, Shaw, Chekhov for a lecture I'm giving, MASTERS OF NATURALISM. I trod well worn paths here I know but the new twist is that it will be an ILLUSTRATED lecture . I.e. actual scenes will be acted out by professionals including myself.Look forward to seeing your other works too.
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  60. Caught your videos a few weeks ago because of your video on Junkyard (which was great) and today realised you're based at Exeter! I'm an undergrad at the Penryn Campus - you might find some fruitful avenues for research down here as we share a campus with Falmouth University and our Geography department (currently, not for much longer) has a postdoc who specialises in site-specific theatre and geographies of waste. May be interesting for you, I don't know!
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  61. really helpful !! i'm doing dissertation and it is really good.
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  62. great video. could you do macbeth, gatsby or children of men asap? have my leaving cert in 14 days and need analysis!!!!
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  63. Hey man, you aced it. Wonderful, indeed. Your teaching method and accent are quite pleasant.
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  64. excellent summary and analysis
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  65. Thank you for this useful video . Scopus and ScienceDirect are another excellent websites that can enable you to look for several scientific papers . I wish you all the best in your academic career .
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  66. Wonderful. Grazie.
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  67. This helps a lot.
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  68. Have you ever thought about talking about Emperor and Galilean?
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  69. i've tried so many ways to read, highlight and take notes. I recommend Kindle app as a very helpful app. it's easy and effective
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  70. If you only see the mega-productions, they might all look the same as each other, while once you get to the amateur productions, there won't always be the same set, choreography, costumes etc. Size & shape of performance space plays a part, size of the chorus may vary. Words & music are mostly fixed, as words are in a non-musical play, meaning the musical has one extra major prescribed factor. But I think the sameness you describe may be best ascribed to musical megaproductions rather than any subset of musicals. The only production I've seen of Les Mis was at my school. I'm look forward to when amateur companies are allowed to produce Hamilton. It may not have the turntable on the stage.
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  71. Just want to know how to find peer review articles
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  72. Great video, Tom! Looking forward to more from this series. On your point about the mimetic nature of dramatic theatre - how would you say that applies to Brecht? Or, say, Strindberg's Dream Play (or other surrealist works)? I wouldn't say that these pieces encourage the audience to believe wholly in the fictional characters. (Although, I must say, I think Brecht's 'alienation' is a bit of a failure, really. The audience always seems to empathise with Mother Courage through till the end.) Not sure whether it's right for this series or not, but I'd love to hear your thoughts on commercialism in theatre. What do you think of the West End, musicals, The Play That Goes Wrong, and the like? Is there an inherent "worthiness" in some theatre that's not present in others? People certainly seem to talk about them like they're lesser things. Or, perhaps more broadly, what is theatre for? Entertainment, social change, both, neither? Would be interesting to hear your thoughts.
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  73. Sick video well done man. Saw a brilliant production of AOHL and so helpful to hear it contextualised here
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  74. cool, good advice actually I do the same things :D but I would like to watch more of stuff like that
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  75. Wow... that will save a lot of my time. Thank you so much Tom. Peace
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  76. It really helps me thank u
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  77. What is the PDF reader youā€™re using? I annotate articles using Goodreader on an iPad Pro. It allows highlighting by colours, underlining, and stroke through. Additionally, it will print/export a page-referenced summary of annotations. I export to Word or Pages and digitally file with the .pdf.
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  78. I enjoyed your video and how you take notes. Love that you are noting content for citations in your notes. My only suggestion is to note the name of the author cited in the original content into your Evernote citation because if you chose to use that sentence, your citation in APA should include that author (citing a secondary source) and you might forget otherwise.
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  79. Hi Tom! great vlogs, I love the selection of topics you cover. I am first year Phd student, and after 6 months I have tons of word documents and no system at all. I was wondering - how do you organise your notes on books, not just pdf articles? where do you put them? do you use Mendeley at all? thank you for the amazing content you put online.
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  80. great video !!loving the accent as always!
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  81. Very interesting videos ! I was wondering, do you only note down quotes or do you paraphrase or start memoing/adressing how you would use the quotes in your writing ?
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  82. Thanks heaps buddy!!! I have just gone back to uni after a 2 year gap and a baby! I am soooo slow and inefficient at researching! xx
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  83. How insightful! I have to say I've always been quite intimidated by her work but this geniuinely made excited about the play, I have to give it another go. Thank you!
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  84. Hey Tom really enjoied your video. Very insightful. You don't know by any chance if there are any documentaries about Kanes plays or even a video of one of the performances of the plays? Would love to see one. Thanks and have a great day :)
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  85. Hey Matt, I'm actually starting my PhD in Drama at Exeter next week! Finding your blog very useful as I'm trying to 'prepare' to these 3 years.. Might see you around the campus then!
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  86. why u look like Ramsy from got?
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  87. Hi! I'm just curious to know if the production relates to your research topic somehow? Or do you analyze everything you see?
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  88. Thank you
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  89. I had heard about "Blasted" but have not seen it. I have seen work where a playwright took themes of violence and retribution. The title escapes me at the moment but I remember the performance. The idea is a woman who was attacked is confronted with the knowledge that the man convicted of the crime had been exonerated. He wants to meet with her, her son and her lesbian partner. It turns out that the man her testimony convicted did not attack her but was a rapist in action and thought. He had simply not been the man who attacked her that night. Prison did little to change him. He winds up taking revenge not on her but on her son. It was a powerful evening of theatre. It was plotted like an episode of "Law and Order" because that's how the play finally came together. I did get to talk to the cast members after the performance. The man who was convicted insists he has changed and has become a christian. I was skeptical because he did not say, "I did not attack you, but only because I wasn't near you. I am a rapist, I thought like a rapist. I'm nearly too ashamed to talk to you because I am becoming a human being again through God's grace." I could write a smoother play but not one more powerful
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  90. Very insightful. Tks very much!
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  91. life saver :) thanks a million for your help!!!!!!!
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  92. Thank you!
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  93. THANK U TO THEE EXTREME MAN!
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  94. thnkxx fr amazing info
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  95. There are some interviews on Internet Archive. Just write Sarah Kane in its browser. Good Luck!
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  96. Can you please get a little closer to the camera? i cant c u
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  97. please do a video on planning and writing a lit review please Tom
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  98. thanks
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  99. Which camera did you use to record yourself? Built-in webcams in most of the laptops are horrible. Great video indeed!
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  100. Thank you so much! It helped a lot.
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  101. I did watch it, of course :) here you are taking notes on a article. How do you manage big books? also in evernote? and do you use something for referencing or manualy? thank you! btw. I would be really interested to see a vlog about why you started this channel, why is it important to you. it is definitely important to us! tnx!
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  102. You're awesome!! Thank you so much! This was helpful. Why don't you drag the pdf to the evernote note and use annotation? It should offer annotation summary in the same note. Not sure how do you think about this.
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  103. I think Shinobu is the surname and Kitayama the given name....
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  104. Another great video :) Have you got any videos (or plans for videos) about overcoming self-doubt problems during a PhD? I know it's quite a personal one, or perhaps not something you struggle with at all, but I know myself and a few other students in MA and PhD sometimes find it hard to overcome that nagging feeling of "Am I good enough for PhD study?" when you don't fully understand a difficult theory, or trip up on a journal article etc. TIA!
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  105. Definitely something which goes hand-in-hand with some of the theories in the humanities. Look forward to the video!
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  106. What is the application you mentioned to take notes? I did not hear properly maybe not clear to me!
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  107. Very informative. Good
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  108. Thanks for the help!
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  109. Hi, how did you create split screens with evernote?
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  110. thank you this is brilliant
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  111. so helpful, thanks for sharing
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  113. Thanks tho very informative
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  114. So close to the camera , too damn close !
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  115. Why would you retype the selected highlight instead of a copy and paste? Iā€™m assuming that was an APA in-text citation appended to what could then be a quotation in a consequent paper. Very clever side-by-side arrangement of the PDF reader and Evernote. Great videos.
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  116. Bart Ellenbroek sent me, fantastic video.
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  117. What is the name of this song? I want to learn to play it
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  118. Not joking, it sounds fun
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  119. It really helps me thank u
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  120. Awesome work, is really hard to find videos like these, thanks
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  121. Really good to learn from your video..
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  122. I liked a lot
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  123. Tom if you can make more videos like this will be of great use. For example one with tips on how to write a paper
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  124. Tom Nicholas I'm going to watch
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  125. Excellent video mate!! really appreciate it. working on my research proposal and your tips will be handy while conducting literature search. Thank you. :)
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  126. Thank you !
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  127. Thank you my friend that was great tips......could that happen to never find any articles in certain fields (PhD world) or maybe I am not that great in searchingĀ ?!!
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  128. Nice, very informative..
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  129. Hello Tom, i have struggle searching full journal article on the internet. Most of the time i just found out an abstract , not the full text or i need to pay . How? any idea or can you do a video about it?
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  130. New subscriber! Also a PhD researcher. I just started a YouTube channel. Please check it out. Thanks for this video.
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  131. This is really helpful, thank you!
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  132. so Tom, I quickly downloaded Mendeley on Internet Explorer after view/reading comments, however, I had to close it using the task manager because it quit responding. I have Evernote, and what I was originally looking for was a tool that allows highlighting and notetaking on screen with the article. I like Evernote but find that I haven't been using it because it doesn't do what I want.....you know this almost makes me miss actual books. Lol
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  133. G thanks I'm having trouble on how to tackle this confusing article and your video helped a lot
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  134. Great tips for organization to synthesize the information later. The dissertation process is a world apart from traditional study patterns. Much of the information that is needed for citation can get lost in the process without good organization.
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  135. i find your method useful..thanks for sharing your technique..
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  136. I found this useful for my study. thank you.
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  137. Ramsey from got is that you
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  138. this helped me with my dissertation! thank you!
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  139. I love this! Very clever, simple and effective! Definitely going to be using this! Thank you so much! šŸ˜
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  140. Thank you
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  141. Hi Tom, glad to watch your Essay reading skills here. I notice you using Evernote appļ¼Ÿ does it work? i wondered any note APP could be more convenientļ¼Ÿthank youļ¼
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  142. Thank you for replying me hahaha
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  143. Good video - like the search tips, how to use it to find further information and as someone who is deaf, I really, really appreciate the clear captions. Donā€™t forget your university library will offer free access to many articles that are paywalled on Google Scholar for literature searching too.
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  144. Thank you. With best wishes.
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  145. Good stuff man, thank you!!!
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  146. great content, clear speach! I was shocked by the number of views you definitly deserve more!
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  147. Thanks! God bless you!
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  148. Thanks for the tips! Keep up the good work!
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  149. Great stuffšŸ‘Œ, but your face is everywhere bra
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  150. thank you, i needed this
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  151. Hey there, I just found your channel and it's quite useful, but as an undergraduate student, my main concern right now is: should I look for a knowledge gap in the literature review for my dissertation? and do you know any good databases for business studies please help because I'm really struggling with the collection of information...!! thanks in advance!!
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  152. I am a fan. I am planning on watching everything you present.
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  153. Hi Tom, which programme/app are you using to highlight as you read and taking notes?
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  154. Hello Ramsey Bolton
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  155. Thanks, Tom! This is great!
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  156. Thanks a lot šŸ˜€ I can now write my essays well
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  157. Love your videos. I watched it all the timesšŸ‘šŸ–’
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  158. Super helpful video!
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  159. Thank-you very much ,your videos are really helpful .
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  160. Tom -- In light of this commentary, you might enjoy Lucas Hnath's Dolls House 2, set 15 years later, when Nora returns. Hnath has done an excellent job exploring the "problem" of marriage & independence of women without necessarily coming to a resolution. Plus, like Enemy, it resonates today as much as Dolls House did at its time.
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  161. this was sooo good!!
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  162. Cheers - you are good! I like it when I see your videos! Sat nam - Thank you for your gift to the world
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  163. So helpful! Thank you .
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  164. im a gaming type of person but i have a essay coming up and i hope this video will help me get better grades in science!!!!!
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  165. Thanks for that!
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  166. he looks like Ramsay Bolton and his voice too :-D :-D :-D
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  167. Sometimes the boolean operators don't make sense in google scholar. For example, if I search "A", I may get 100 results. If I use a boolean operator, "OR", to search "A" OR "B", theoretically, I should get more results. But most of the time, I get fewer results instead. I don't know why.
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  168. Ramsay Bolton
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  169. Very nice analysis!
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  170. if I get an A+ i will subscribe
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  171. You can link Google Scholar to your university library to see quickly which papers you have access to in full text - through Settings and then Library Links. Google Scholar is great but can lead to a dead end if the paper you want is behind a paywall.
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  172. Very helpful. Cheers for that Tom.
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