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

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  1. Robert J. Sternberg, The Psychologist’s Companion: A Guide to
    Scientific Writing for Students and Researchers (Cambridge:
    Cambridge University Press and British Psychological Society,
    1988), p. 58.

  2. The Sun’s headline synopsis of the quiet revolution in
    Czechoslovakia was: ‘Commies Czech Out’.

  3. Michelangelo quoted in A. D. Sertillanges, The Intellectual Life: Its
    Spirits, Conditions and Methods(Dublin: Mercier Press, 1978), trans-
    lated by Mary Ryan, p. 222.

  4. Johanne Wolfgang von Goethe, quoted in R. Andrews, The Routledge
    Dictionary of Quotations(London: Routledge, 1987), p. 292. The
    same quotation from Faust is also rendered as: ‘When ideas fail,
    words come in very handy’, in L. D. Eigen and J. P. Siegel, Dictionary
    of Political Quotations(London: Robert Hale, 1994), p. 466.

  5. Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
    (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1979), translated by Alan Sheridan.


Chapter 5 Writing clearly: style and
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  1. Robert Sternberg, The Psychologist’s Companion: A Guide to
    Scientific Writing for Students and Researchers (Cambridge:
    Cambridge University Press and British Psychological Society,
    1988), p. 3.

  2. Alain de Botton, The Consolations of Philosophy(London: Penguin,
    2000), pp. 158–9.

  3. Howard S. Becker, Writing for Social Scientists(Chicago: University
    of Chicago Press, 1986), p. 81.

  4. Quoted in R. Andrews, The Routledge Dictionary of Quotations
    (London: Routledge, 1987), p. 250.

  5. Quoted in The Observer, More Sayings of the Week(London: The
    Observer, 1983), p. 60.

  6. Blaise Pascal, Pensées (London: Dent, 1932), p. 45, Thought
    number 145.

  7. Pascal, Pensées, p. 7, Thought number 23.

  8. Pascal, Pensées, p. 45, Thought number 145.

  9. Quoted by Antoine Laurent Lavoisier in his Preface to The Elements
    of Chemistry(1789), reprinted in E. Blair Bolles (ed.), Galileo’s
    Commandment: An Anthology of Great Science Writing(London:
    Abacus, 2000), pp. 379–88, quote on p. 380.

  10. G. K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man (London: Hodder and
    Stoughton, 1925), p. 161.

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