Authoring a PhD

One-stop look-up
– a key principle for referencing. To find the
source of a quotation or the full details of a reference for a book or
paper, readers should need to look in only one place in your text.
They should never have to go to two locations to find full referen-
cing or source details. [pp. 121–2]

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parsimony
– a general stylistic bias in favour of saying things in the
shortest possible amount of words. Useful in avoiding repetitions and
encouraging concise and efficient exposition, this attitude can also
often produce rather hard-boiled or inaccessible text. See the 
‘Less is
more’ maxim
. [p. 108]
problematic
– an intellectual paradox or set of issues which provides
the central research question(s) of the thesis. See the maxim, 
Structure
your thesis around a paradox, not around a gap
. [pp. 18–26]