Authoring a PhD

The Elements
of Chemistry
(1789), reprinted in E. Blair Bolles (ed.), 
Galileo’s
Commandment: An Anthology of Great Science Writing
(London:
Abacus, 2000), pp. 379–88, quote on p. 380.
10. G. K. Chesterton, 
The Everlasting Man
(London: Hodder and
Stoughton, 1925), p. 161.

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11. Anatole France (1844–1924), quoted in Andrews, 
The Routledge
Dictionary of Quotations
, p. 218. Of course, by ‘copy it’ here France
means quote and acknowledge it, not plagiarize it!
12. Joseph Gubaldi, 
MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing
(New York: Modern Languages Association, 1998), 2nd edn.
13. For Endnote see www.endnote.com.
Chapter 6
Developing your text and 
managing the writing process 
1. I have not been able to trace this quotation. For Nietzsche gener-
ally, see Laurence Gane and Kitty Chan, 
Introducing Nietzsche
(Cambridge: Icon Books, 1999).
2. John Fowles, 
Mantissa
(London: Triad/Panther, 1984), p. 117.
3. The Emperor in George Lucas’s film 
The Return of the Jedi
. Shooting
script on http://corky.net/scripts/returnOfTheJedi.html
4. Howard S. Becker, 
Writing for Social Scientists
(Chicago: University
of Chicago Press, 1986), Chapter 3.
5. James Thurber quoted in Lewis Minkin, 
Exits and Entrances:
Political Research as a Creative Art
(Sheffield: Sheffield Hallam
University Press, 1997), p. 100.
6. Becker, 
Writing for Social Scientists
, p. 60.
7. Umberto Eco, 
Kant and the Platypus: Essays on Language and Cognition
(London: Verso, 1997), translated by Alastair McEwan, p. 4.
8. Bernard Lonergan, 
Insight
(London: Ward Lock, 1978), p. 174.
Originally published 1958.
9. Francis Bacon quoted in E. Dimnet, 
The Art of Thinking
(London:
Cape, 1929), p. 108.
10. Eco, 
Kant and the Platypus
, p. 4.
11. A leading example is 
Nudist
, a package designed for systematic analy-
sis and handling of large amounts of qualitative data. It includes
split-screen editing facilities, which some people have found useful.
12. Quoted in Minkin, 
Exits and Entrances
, p. 313.
13. Quoted in Minkin, 
Exits and Entrances
, p. 313.
14. Sir Phillip Sidney (1554–86), originally from 
Astrophe and Stella
(1519), Sonnet 1, and quoted in different forms in 
The Concise
Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
(Oxford: Oxford University Press,
1981), p. 241, and R. Andrews, 
The Routledge Book of Quotations
(London: Routledge, 1987), p. 292.
15. Quoted in 
The Observer, More Sayings of the Week
(London: The
Observer, 1983), p. 60.
16. The next few paragraphs draw on the useful discussion in Eviatar
Zerubavel,
The Clockwork Muse: A Practical Guide to Writing Theses,

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Dissertations and Books
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press,
1999). Zerubavel offers detailed guidance on how to timetable
writing sessions.
17. Quoted in A. D. Sertillanges, 
The Intellectual Life: Its Spirits,
Conditions and Methods
(Dublin: Mercier Press, 1978), translated by
Mary Ryan, p. 220.
18. Zerubavel, 
The Clockwork Muse
, chs 4–5.
19. James Gleick,