Matt Groening's advice to students and teachers.

Thirty years after everybody else, I've got round to reading the pre-Simpsons work of Matt Groening, Hell. It's a wonderful strip about an alienated, lonely and slightly eccentric rabbit, who bears some physical resemblance to the Simpson family.

The opening page of The Big Book of Hell features this advice, which I think will form the centrepiece of my next 'how to do your dissertation' talk - and could usefully be distributed to colleagues too!

He also provides a handy guide to university lecturers:

The question is, which one am I?