Authoring a PhD How to plan, draft, write and finish a doctoral thesis or dissertation Patrick ... ( PDFDrive )
classical model PhD – traditional British, Commonwealth and
European model of the doctorate, in which the student works for a
long period (usually three to five years) on producing a
‘big book’ thesis , supervised either by one or two
supervisors (in the British or
Commonwealth model) or by a collegium of staff members (in the
European model). [pp. 5–11]
compromise model – an intermediate approach to the overall struc-
turing of a PhD thesis, which seeks to combine features of the
focus down model and the
opening out model . [pp. 60–1]
data reduction – techniques for screening out superfluous, unneces-
sary or unwanted detail in numerical information. Key steps include:
using charts or graphs instead of tables; cutting or rounding numbers
in tables; reducing or eliminating decimal places; following the
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four effective digits maxim below; and using exploratory data analysis
methods. [pp. 185–92]
