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  1. Hello, everyone... I really appreciate this forum. This may be more appropriate for the writing forum, but here it goes... I am a third year student in a PhD program at a large research university in the U.S. I have two Master's degrees in related fields, so I feel like I have some experience in academia (at least compared to other students in my cohort). Until now, I've felt like my writing was decent - not perfect, but not terrible. However, since I started working on my PhD with my current advisor, I've noticed that I've had trouble organizing my papers (particularly manuscripts for publication - not so much for class papers; I get good grades). I'm thinking this may be due in part to my advisor. She is NOT well-liked by anyone in the department, or any of her graduate students, for a wide variety of reasons. However, I'm unable to figure out exactly what the problem is (other than the fact that it seems I'm not one of her favorite students). I've maintained a good relationship with my old advisor (with whom I did one of my Master's degrees), and we continue to work together on a number of projects (papers). She doesn't see anything wrong with my work. I've gotten some useful feedback from my lab-mates (we all get along pretty well... just not with our advisor), but the feedback I get from my advisor often seems vague and unhelpful. Other students in our lab don't seem to have this specific problem to the same degree. So I guess I'm just asking if anyone else has had similar experiences and might have some advice. I'm kind of out of ideas. I just feel like the longer I work with my current advisor, the worse my writing (and, as a result, publishing record) gets. Any thoughts would be much appreciated. Hopefully I'll be able to repay the favor at some point. Thanks! - JG
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