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

186 ◆AUTHORING A PHD that cuts out confusing and unnecessary decimal points or where numbers are rounded. And transform your dat ...

HANDLING ATTENTION POINTS◆ 187 Stem-and-leaf analysis goes a little bit further because it retains more of the information given ...

188 ◆AUTHORING A PHD up or down until we reach the fourteenth observation (shown in bold in the listing above). And we can find ...

HANDLING ATTENTION POINTS◆ 189 It can be useful to look at a single box-and-whisker plot of the statistics from one stem-and-lea ...

190 ◆AUTHORING A PHD changes or transitions that can occur in the central level of the data series. Smoothing data is a way of d ...

HANDLING ATTENTION POINTS◆ 191 Median smoothing twice will get the change back to taking place at its real time in May.) To see ...

192 ◆AUTHORING A PHD Overall, consistently developing and using stem-and-leaf, box-and-whisker and data smoothing will take very ...

HANDLING ATTENTION POINTS◆ 193 disappointed. If they put effort into understanding a diagram that turns out to shed no extra ill ...

on processes shown in square boxes connected by horizontal or vertical arrows. There is also a more ‘engineering’ style of flow ...

Acontrols or overseesB? Try and avoid using double-headed arrows, which are very confusing for readers, and usually indicate tha ...

196 ◆AUTHORING A PHD humanities subjects (like history) show not dissimilar trends. And the days when university teaching consis ...

197 The End-game: Finishing Your Doctorate The tension between making it better and getting it done appears wherever people have ...

a project, recognizing that its imperfections and deficiencies (so intimately familiar to the author) have just to be lived with ...

a fully integrated thesis, unified by a clear intellectual direction and looking like an ‘industrial standard’ product, with all ...

200 ◆AUTHORING A PHD first draft signals that from here on the elements of your thesis are pretty fixed. The best organization a ...

THE END-GAME◆ 201 Theoretically ambitious authors will usually put thematic or analytic key words together before the colon, and ...

◆ Does it define exactlythe central research question which you have answered? Does it avoid drawing attention to any gaps or de ...

status quo will always seem preferable. Instead consider its strengths and weakness compared with a large number of pos- sible a ...

204 ◆AUTHORING A PHD normally only write them in a hectic final rush to get finished. Some treat them as just another boring pie ...

in the first paragraph of the abstract. But now your content should focus on evaluating the worth or applicability of these conc ...