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

is endnotes, discussed below.) Harvard referencing is perhaps the most widely used approach in academic life. There has been a l ...

◆ For journal articles the bibliography reference must include in sequence: author surname, full forename, second forename initi ...

Finally Harvard referencing has big advantages because it tends to discourage authors from proliferating and expanding ‘subtexts ...

passage you cite whatever edition of the work they are using. Legal case referencing also has its own forms. And citations of do ...

include full details on who interviewees were; where and when you talked to them; how interviews were conducted (for instance, f ...

by the word-processing package when you create an end- note. Note numbers should always be located at the end of sentences, not ...

thesis gets published as a book readers will face no extra diffi- culty in using notes placed all together at the back. The grea ...

side-shows there. Endnotes have less impact on authors here, because endnotes are in a much less visible location. Finally, for ...

Developing Your Text and Managing the Writing Process Never ignore, never refuse to see, what may be thought against your though ...

Of course, Fowles is pointing out that this degree of navel-gazing is deeply unhealthy, even disabling for his field. Thankfully ...

may easily get the feeling part-way through writing that you have been thoroughly mistaken about where this best way lies, and n ...

known in advance, and allow you to weigh, test and sift the varying levels of commitment you have to different proposi- tions. S ...

You will almost always need to carry out five operations on any piece of text: print, edit, revise, upgrade and remodel: ◆ Print ...

Producing a piece of text finished in ‘first draft’ form involves both your private efforts to generate raw text and improve on ...

go forward a certain distance on your own, after which you need to get some radically different views of what you are say- ing i ...

not include many people who know a great deal about your topic. The point of these exercises is for you to think through how you ...

version of the entire text (see Chapter 8). It is important for your later morale that before you ‘bank’ the chapter you make so ...

Later on in your doctorate, when you have a developed version of a chapter in a tightly written and short conference paper for- ...

Three steps provide the foundations for remodelling: Write out the chapter heading in full, and then all the subheadings in ful ...

◆ Does the chapter use an analytic or argumentative mode of exposition (generally better in terms of organizing and personalizin ...