Authoring a PhD Thesis How to Plan, Draft, Write and Finish a Doctoral Dissertation by Patrick Dunleavy

Authoring a PhD How to plan, draft, write and finish a doctoral thesis or dissertation Patrick Dunleavy ...

Authoring a PhD ...

Palgrave Study Guides A Handbook of Writing for Engineers Joan van Emden Authoring a PhD Patrick Dunleavy Effective Communicatio ...

Authoring a PhD How to plan, draft, write and finish a doctoral thesis or dissertation Patrick Dunleavy ...

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All rules for study are summed up in this one: learn only in order to create. Friedrich Schelling ...

Contents List of figures and tables ix Preface x 1 Becoming an author 1 Authoring is more than just writing 2 Different models o ...

6 Developing your text and managing the writing process Drafting, upgrading and going public Remodelling text Organizing the wr ...

List of Figures and Tables Figures 3.1 Interrelating the whole and the core 50 3.2 The focus down model 55 3.3 The opening out m ...

Preface T he conservative political philosopher Michael Oakeshott once argued that: A university is an association of persons, l ...

doctorate they still pursue the most demanding ideal of original research. ‘Nothing was ever yet done that someone was not the f ...

build on a small amount of ‘ready-made knowledge’ (as Schelling termed it),^5 picking and choosing those elements of this text t ...

scattered across these pages. Lastly I would like to thank the stu- dents from 18 disciplines who attended my PhD writing course ...

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1 Becoming an Author In writing a problem down or airing it in conversation we let its essential aspects emerge. And by knowing ...

humanities and social science disciplines. The second section considers the varying authoring tasks involved in the ‘classical’ ...

legitimately or usefully studied in universities. Many, perhaps most, working academics might doubt that much useful can be said ...

times by much more formalized, extensive and lengthier processes of advanced instruction. And on authoring issues, many students ...

ability to complete doctoral-level work will be primarily condi- tioned by your own research ideas and ‘native’ originality, and ...