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

6 Developing your text and managing the

• writing process


• Drafting, upgrading and going public


• Remodelling text


• Organizing the writing process


• and graphics 7 Handling attention points: data, charts


• Principles for presenting data well


• Handling tables


• Designing charts and graphs


• Other techniques for data reduction


• Using diagrams and images


• 8 The end-game: finishing your doctorate
  
  
  • From a first full draft to your final text
  
  
  • Submitting the thesis and choosing examiners
  
  
  • The final oral examination (viva)
  
  
  
  


• 9 Publishing your research
  
  
  • Writing and submitting journal papers
  
  
  • Re-working your thesis as a book
  
  
  • Afterword
  
  
  • Glossary of maxims, terms and phrases
  
  
  • Notes
  
  
  • Further reading
  
  
  • Index