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

Implementing effective chapter structures is closely bound up
with writing and producing text more generally. But to have a
clear idea of what you are doing and some rules of thumb of the
kind set out here is a great advantage when starting out on the
writing process. It should generate more initial ideas for you to
try out. In the next chapter I carry the discussion down to an
even more detailed level of writing, looking at two issues which
often prove troublesome for doctoral students – writing in a good
style, and including simple and efficient scholarly references.

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Chapter 2

Section 2.1 Section 2.2 Section 2.3

Conclusions

Figure 4.1 The tree structure of a chapter