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Top ten questions for the PhD oral exam

A checklist of ‘viva’ issues that always come up

When you have finally finished writing a PhD dissertation or thesis, and submitted it to the university for review, you are at the end of a long period of…

Writing For Research in Advice for authoring a PhD or academic book

Writing informative abstracts for journal articles

Be substantive and communicate your key findings

Reading the abstracts for academic journal abstracts can be as frustrating as trying to work out what their titles mean. In the same…

Writing For Research in Advice for authoring a PhD or academic book

In a PhD or academic book, do you really need a Methodology chapter early on?

Or would a Research Methods Annex be better?

It is axiomatic that any doctorate (and any serious academic book) must be based on sound…

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Seven questions to ask about how your chapter ends

Final impressions are lasting — make them good ones

How many times in reading academic work have you skimmed materials from the beginnings and ends of chapters or papers — the title…

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Fair comment in academia

Rapoport’s Rules for critically handling literature and reviewing articles

One of the hardest things to get right in academic contexts is how to comment fairly on other people’s work. On the one hand…

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