In November last year my book for doctoral candidates The PhD Application Handbook was reviewed in a newsletter. I didn’t like the review very much - it was biassed, factually incorrect, and the reviewer had poor knowledge of the topic. Write enough books (and speak your mind often enough) and you always end up with one or two reviews like that. I normally have a rant to my friends (“but that’s just wrong!”, “did they even read it?”, “are they stupid?”) and then forget about it. This time (I can’t remember why), I wrote my rant down and sent it to the publisher of the newsletter - the UK Council of Graduate Education. To their credit, they appear to have actually published my author’s response in the next newsletter. If only I could correct every annoying review like this! You can read my (slightly annoyed and clearly frustrated) words by clicking here.

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