Authoring a PhD

New York Herald Tribune
, 28 June 1959. The
architect Robert Venturi famously retorted: ‘Less is a bore.’
5. Boscoe Pertwee, quoted in Umberto Eco, 
Kant and the Platypus:
Essays on Language and Cognition
(London: Verso, 1997), translated
by Alastair McEwan, p. 2.
6. Monty Python. The full script can be found at: www.ai.mit.edu/
people/paulfitz/spanish/script.html
Chapter 9
Publishing your research
1. AT&T poster advertisement, autumn 2000. The company is an
American phone giant.
2. Quoted in G. G. Neil Wright, 
Teach Yourself to Study
(London:
English Universities Press, 1945), p. 96.

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3. ISI Web of Knowledge is at www.isinet.com and includes the Social
Science Citation Index and Arts and Humanities Citation Index.
4. See www.ingenta.com and www.jstor.org It is best to access them
via your university library, where it should be free.
5. E. Tulving and S. A. Madigan wrote their piece in 1970, and are
quoted in 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), pp. 166–7.
6. Sternberg, 
The Psychologist’s Companion
, pp. 179–83.
7. Quoted by Minkin, 
Exits and Entrances
, p. 15.
8. Quoted by Minkin, 
Exits and Entrances
, p. 90.
9. Other useful search engines include: www.alltheweb.com;
www.teoma.com; www.vivisimo.com (which gives nicely clustered
results); www.wisenut.com; and even www.search.msn.com. For
articles in magazines try www.findarticles.com.
10. Milan Kundera, 
Immortality
(London: Faber, 1991).
11. Garfield is written and drawn by Jim Davis and published in New
York by Ballantine Books, see www.randomhouse.com/BB/.
Afterword
1. G. K. Chesterton quoted in 
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of
Quotations
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981), p. 70. The
original source was his essay ‘Folly and female education’, Iv. 14.
2. Quoted I. Gane and K. Chan, 
Introducing Nietzsche
(Duxford,
Cambridge: Icon Books, 1998), p. 40.
3. Michael Oakeshott, ‘Rationalism in politics’, in his 
Rationalism
in Politics and Other Essays
(Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1991), 
pp. 29–30. Originally published 1947.
4. A. D. Sertillanges, 
The Intellectual Life: Its Spirits, Conditions and
Methods
(Dublin: Mercier Press, 1978), translated by Mary Ryan,
p. 172.
Glossary
1. Blaise Pascal, 
Pensées
(London: Dent, 1932), p. 103, Thought
number 380.

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Further Reading
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any people have written useful or inspiring things about authoring
in professional contexts and about being creative about research.
But these ideas are mainly small snippets in works on diverse topics.
Tracking down these bits and pieces was worthwhile for me, and the
sources involved are shown in the Notes (starting on p. 277). But I would
rate only a few of these works as worthwhile for readers to follow up. 
I give a couple of lines of commentary to explain or qualify all my 
recommendations, because each book is likely to be helpful for only 
a specific kind of reader.
General writings relevant for intellectual work
S. and K. Baker, 
The Idiot’s Guide to Project Management
(Indianapolis:
Macmillan, 2000), second edition. A clear and self-deprecating guide
to planning a large-scale piece of work, full of useful reflections but
not specific to doctoral projects.
Howard S. Becker,