Authoring a PhD

see also
supervisor
adviser, minor, 5–11, 13–14, 271
algebra, 30
amateur dramatics, 198
Amazon.com, 254
analytic explanation or structure,
68–70, 73–4, 145, 266
Anderson, Poul (1926–2001), 62, 281
anthropomorphism, 118–19
appendices, 61, 160
Apple, 125
appointment committees, 202, 234
Aquinas, St Thomas (1225–74), 284
archetypal singular, 119, 266
argumentative explanation or
structure, 70–4, 145, 267
AT & T, 227, 285
‘attractor’ elements, 93–5
Auden, W. H. (1907–73), 154, 284
authoring, passim, 267
authoring defined, 1
authoring dilemmas, 1, 73, 103–11
Bacon, Francis (1561–1626), xi, 283
‘banking’ a chapter, 141–2
bar charts, grouped, 177
bar charts, horizontal, 174
bar charts, vertical, 173
bar charts, 3D, 183
bar charts, percentage
component chart, 176
Becker, Howard S., 108, 135, 136,
197, 281, 282, 283, 285
beginning PhD students, 3–4, 13–14,
15–17, 20, 26–7, 28, 42
Bible, the, 94, 128
bibliographies, segmented, 130, 267
bibliography, 35, 122–33, 267
‘big book thesis’, 5–11, 19, 28, 43–75,
92, 131, 155, 267
binding dissertations, 210
Biot, Jean-Baptiste (1774–1862), 33
blank page/screen problem, 91–2,
134, 136, 149–50
body (in paragraphs), 112–13, 267
body text, 267
books, academic, 11–12, 46, 103,
112, 120, 132, 223, 251–64
Botton, Alain de, 1, 104, 109, 278,
282, 287–8
box-and-whisker plots, 188–9, 192
brainstorming, 34–5, 202
Britain, PhD exams, 218–26
Browning, Robert (1812–89), 208,
285
bureaucratization, ix, 39–40
business studies, 289
‘by-product’ view of authoring, 2–5
capitalizing words, 120
case studies, 52

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causal analysis, 69
CDs, 160, 168, 272
central research question, 18–26,
200–9, 276
chapter banking, 141–2
chapter conclusions, 99–100
chapter ends, 97–8
chapter headings, 84–6, 143–8,
199–209
chapter planning, 76–84, 143–8,
199–201
chapter sequence, 43–75
chapter titles, 91–2
chapter, first, 52, 205–6
chapter, last, 55, 207
chapter, structure, 84–100, 143–6
chapters, middle, 206–7
charts, 90, 120, 157–65, 171–84,
188–92, 196; 
see also
charts,
figures
Chesterton, Gilbert Keith
(1874–1936), 24, 118, 264,
279, 282
‘chop and stick’, 146
chronology structures, 66–7
circulation of journals, 230–1
citation scores, 230
citation systems, 103–4, 122–33,
228–9
‘classical model’ PhD, 5–11, 56–7, 219
Collins, Randall, 53, 281
Colton, Charles Caleb (1780–1832),
16, 278
comments (in journals), 240
commitments, 37–8, 288
compromise model, 60–1, 267
conceptual frameworks, 30
conclusions, to chapters, 79, 97–8
Condillac, Abbé Etienne de
(1715–80), 117
conference papers, 47, 142–3, 192
conferences, 142–3, 155, 158–9,
215–16, 226, 243, 246, 291
Constable, John (1776–1837), 31
contents page, 52, 88
contents page, extended, 83–4
contract, for books, 251–2, 261–2
contractual nature of PhD, 19–20
conventional wisdom, 32, 279
coursework, 5–11, 57
craft approach, in PhD education,
2–11
creative non-fiction, x, 124–5, 290
creativity, 5, 26–42, 288
Crisp, Quentin (1908–99), 21
cultural studies, 289–90
curriculum vitae, 21, 252
Darwin, Charles (1809–82), 227
data analysis, 25
data presentation, 159–65
data reduction, 95, 159, 185–92, 267
Davies, Robertson (1913–95), 40, 280
deadlines, 148–9
defamation, 262
‘defence in depth’, 222–4
departments, 79, 141, 211
derivative writing, 113–14
descriptive explanation or structure,
63–8, 145, 268
Dewey, John (1859–1952), 41, 284
diagrams, 30, 90, 120, 192–6
Dimnet, Edward, 11, 12
dinner-party test, 22–3
displacement activities, 148
dissertation committees, 5–11, 14–15,
19, 88, 209–16, 217, 289
dissertation defence, 268
documentation searches, 29–30
double-blind refereeing, 229, 268
dual publication, 250–1, 268
Eco, Umberto, 143, 192, 283, 285
edit stage, 138, 149
editorial boards (of journals), 232–3
editors, of journals, 227–51
effective digits, 268
Ehrenberg, A.C. S., 284, 285
electronic journals, 30
Eliot, T. S. (1888–1965), 281
Elster, Jon, 38–9, 280, 288
emergency stop test, 98–100, 147–8,
268
end-game, 14, 197–226, 284
end-loading (a dissertation), 51–2
Endnote (software), 124–5, 132
endnotes, 114, 122, 128, 130–3,
268
endnotes, positioning, 131–2
endpoint (for research), 203
epigraph (quotations), 93
ergonomic keyboards, 151
Europe, PhD exams, 217–18
Evans, Greg, 185, 284
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examination (final oral), 216–26,
268, 269
examiners, 13–14, 19, 58, 90, 121–2,
157, 209–26, 268
examples, 94–5
Excel (software), 172
exercise, 152
exploratory data analysis, 185–92
false starts, 92–3, 242
figures, 90, 120, 157–65, 171–84,
188–92, 196;