Authoring a PhD

Freedom
(New York:
Reprise Records, 1989).
3. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, quoted in S. and K. Baker, 
The Idiot’s Guide to
Project Management
(Indianapolis: Macmillan, 2000), 2nd edn, p. 359.
4. C. Wright Mills, 
The Sociological Imagination
(New York: Oxford
University Press, 1959), p. 245.
5. Randall Collins, 
The Sociology of Philosophies: A Global Theory of
Intellectual Change
(Cambridge, MA: Belknap/Harvard, 1999), p. 52.
6. T. S. Eliot, ‘The Hollow Men’, in his 
Collected Poems, 1909–1962
(London: Faber, 1974), pp. 89–92, quote from p. 92; originally
published 1925.
7. The science fiction writer Poul Anderson, quoted in Arthur
Koestler, 
The Ghost in the Machine
(London: Hutchinson, 1967). 
See also www.quotationspage.com/quotes/poul_anderson/
8. The distinction between descriptive, analytic, argumentative and
matrix patterns was first made in P. Dunleavy, 
Studying for a Degree
in the Humanities and Social Sciences
(Basingstoke: Macmillan, now
Palgrave Macmillan, 1987), pp. 86–97.
Chapter 4
Organizing a chapter or paper:
the micro-structure
1. Jerome K. Jerome, 
Three Men in a Boat
, ch. 3.
2. Stanislaw Lem, 
Solaris
(London: Faber, 1970), p. 120.
3. Henry Ford, unsourced quotation from a ‘thought pyramid’ in the
office of a Ford salesperson who sold me a Mondeo car in Milton
Keynes, June 2002.
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4. 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.
5. The 
Sun
’s headline synopsis of the quiet revolution in
Czechoslovakia was: ‘Commies Czech Out’.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. Michel Foucault, 
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
(Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1979), translated by Alan Sheridan.
Chapter 5
Writing clearly: style and 
referencing issues
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