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

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Koai, Helen Margetts, Andrew Massey, Rosa Mule, Mark Patterson,

John Peterson, Yvonne Rydin, Richard Sandlant, James Stanyer,

Helen Thompson, Carol Vielba, John Xavier, Andrew Webster,

Daniel Wincott and Spencer Zifcak. I am grateful also to Kiyoko

Iwasaki, Gita Subrahmanyam and Pieter Vanhuysse, whose doctor-

ates were still ongoing at the time of writing. I learnt a lot also from:

Davina Cooper, Penny Law, Abigail Melville and Anne Meyel.

Amongst LSE people who were not my supervisees, I benefited from

conversations with Richard Heffernan, Andrew Hindmoor, Rolf

Hoijer and Oliver James.

7. I thank especially: Martin Bulmer (now at the University of
   Southampton), Keith Dowding, George Gaskell, Michael Hebbert
   (now at the University of Manchester), George Jones, Paul Kelly,
   Peter Loizos, Helen Margetts (now at the School of Public Policy,
   University College, London), Brendan O’Leary (now at the
   University of Pennsylvania), Anne Power, James Putzel and Yvonne
   Rydin. I am especially indebted to Liz Barnett and her supportive
   staff in the LSE’s Teaching and Learning Development Office for
   their extended help and assistance. I thank also Andy Northedge
   (Open University).


8. Plato quoted in Ernest Dimnet, Art of Thinking(London: Cape,
   1929), p. 95.

Chapter 1 Becoming an author

1. Alain de Botton, The Consolations of Philosophy(London: Penguin,
   2000), pp. 58–9.


2. C. Wright Mills, The Sociological Imagination (New York: Oxford
   University Press, 1959), p. 243.


3. Michael Oakeshott, from his inaugural lecture at LSE, ‘Political
   Education’, p. 15, quoted in W. J. M. Mackenzie, Explorations
   in Government (London: Macmillan, now Palgrave Macmillan,
   1975), p. 24.


4. Ernest Dimnet, The Art of Thinking(London: Cape, 1929), p. 151.


5. Thomas Gray, ‘Elegy in a country churchyard’:

Full many a rose is born to blush unseen

And waste its sweetness on the desert air.

6. Charles Caleb Colton (1780–1832). Colton was a British clergyman
   who coined aphorisms now popular on US religious Web sites. This
   quote was given to me by a student, and I have been unable to trace
   it to a source.