Getting Over the Thesis Barrier
By Clive Landis
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Don’t end up among the 50% of all PhD students who never graduate. This essential thesis writing guide will teach you the tricks of the trade to conquer writer’s block and sail through the thesis writing process. First advice: do NOT start at the beginning! Learn the easiest order of writing, how to create a thesis framework, how to pass the “weight test” and, finally, to conquer the viva voce.
Clive Landis
Dr. Clive Landis is Professor of Cardiovascular Research at The University of the West Indies, Barbados. A widely published researcher, he has experience of the PhD process from a developed- as well as a developing-country perspective, having supervised PhD students first at Imperial College, London, and latterly in the Caribbean. But his students all have one thing in common: a 100% graduation rate with their PhDs.
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Getting Over the Thesis Barrier - Clive Landis
Getting Over the Thesis Barrier
By Clive Landis, Ph.D.
Copyright Clive Landis 2013
Smashwords Edition
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Dedication
To Julie, for putting up with me
Introduction
How to get writing:
- do NOT start at the beginning!
- know the causes of writer’s block
- tricks of the trade
It is an ongoing tragedy that 50% of all PhD students never graduate. Without doubt, the biggest barrier to graduation is the writing of the thesis. There can be no more daunting a prospect than sitting down to write your thesis – cursor winking on a blank screen – knowing you will need to produce a document to pass several time-honored ritual tests: First, the Latin test: I hope you know what viva voce and magnum opus means? Because you will need to pass both of those. Or how about the weight test
and the caliper test
? Your thesis will need to pass those physical exams too. And how do you even get to that point? What if you have writer’s block? (all students do)
This essential writing guide is aimed at getting students over writer’s block. You will learn the tricks of the trade – applicable to any thesis, whether in the humanities or the sciences – to conquer writer’s block and sail through the thesis writing process, overcoming hurdles faced by generations of students before and generations to come, but starting with the obvious question: where to start? And if there is one piece of advice to take home from this book it is this: DO NOT START AT THE BEGINNING!
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Who Are You Writing This For? Not the world
Chapter 2: Before You Start: Hypothesis and Aims
Chapter 3: The Order of Writing: Do NOT Start at the Beginning
Chapter 4: The Results Chapter: The Heart of the Thesis
Chapter 5: The Methods: The Wrong Remedy for Writer’s Block
Chapter 6: Introduction: How to Conquer Everest
Chapter 7: The Discussion: The Home Strait (and save the world
)
Chapter 8: References and Appendices: Bulk it up!
Chapter 9: Some Writing Tips: Making Life Easy