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‘one-stop lookup principle, 121–2,
267, online journals, 132, 234–5
‘op. cit.’ references, open refereeing, 229, 272
opening-out model, 59–60, Oppenheimer, Robert (1904–67), oral examinations, 216–26, 268, organizers, 78, originality, 2, 5, 10, 26–42, 49,
109–10, 235–6, 244–5, 288
outliers, outline (in word processors, 81–2
over-organizing a chapter, overwriting, 45–7, 207–8, papers model dissertation, 5, 8–11,
19, 46, 51, paragraph replanning, paragraphs, 106, 111–14, 143–6, parsimony, 105, 107–8, parts structure, Pascal, Blaise (1623–62), 32, 35, 111,
114, 116, 153, 199, 266, 280,
282, 284, 285, passive phrasing, passive writing, Pasteur, Louis, 37, 41, 281, Pauling, Linus (1901–94), 35, PCs (personal computers, 151–2
peer-group review, 228–9, 235–9
periodized chronologies, personal digital assistant (PDA), 35
Pertwee, Boscoe, 209, PhD, classical model, PhD, taught model, philosophy, 287, physics envy, pie charts, 174, plagiarism, plan (for research/thesis), 25–6, 38,
43–75, 86–7, Plato, 40, Platonic form, Popper, Karl (1902–94), popular science books, referencing in, portable PCs, 151
Powerpoint (software, preface, 52, presentation packages, 165, presentations, 142–3, 155, 157, primary data, primary sources, referencing, print, edit, revise, upgrade, remodel’
operations, 138, printing, 138, professional bodies, 32, 141–3, project research, psychology, 238–9, publications portfolio, 249–50
publishability, 9–10, publishers, 13, 122, 231, 233, publishing, 223, publishing subsidy, 255
quartiles, question headings, questions, for research, 18–26, quotations, 78–9, 93–4
Radiohead, 158, random sequence (of authors, 66–7,
74, range (statistics, rationality, readability, readers behaviour, 11–16, 58, 89–90,
113, 139, 154–5, 160, 288
re-basing index numbers, refereeing, 109, 122, refereeing, double-blind, 229, refereeing, open, 229, refereeing, single-blind, 229, 274
reference-handling software, referencing circles, 222, 228, referencing interviews, referencing systems, 103–4, referencing, over, 103–4, 122, referral, 221, 225, regression line, regulations, for PhD, 27–8, 45–7,
123, 205, 210–21, 224–5
reification, religion, remodelling (or restructuring) text, 143–8, 208–9, repetitive strain injury (RSI, report writing, Research Assessment Exercise (RAE),
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research degrees (other, research methods, research methods appendix, 61, research myths, research notes, 240, research team projects, 20, 223
résumé, 21, 251
Return of the Jedi, review articles, revise and resubmit, revising stage for text, 138
Rohe, Mies van der (1886–1969), rolling synopsis, 53, 83, rounding data, 161–2, 166–8, Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712–78), royalties, RSI (repetitive strain injury, Russell, Bertrand (1872–1970), 33, say it once, say it right principle, 144, scaling charts, 182–3
scatterplot, Schelling, Friedrich von (vi, xi, xii, Schopenhauer, Arthur (1788–1860),
28, second order subheadings, sections, of chapters, 76–84, segmented bibliography, seminars, 4, 140–2, 159, sentences, serial methods of working, 43–4
Sertillanges, AD, seven as a magic number, 35, 45, Shaw, George Bernard (1856–1950),
33, 34, 110, 280
shelf-bending research theses, short article journals, Sidney, Philip (1554–80), 148, signposts, signposting, 95–6, 97, Simon, Neil, 145, 155
single-blind refereeing, 229, skim readers, smoothing data, Social Sciences Citation Index, social sciences, mathematical, 5, 9,
46, specialist journals, spreadsheets, 165
SPSS statistics package, stages (in writing, 136–43
Stata (statistics package, statistics, 169–70
stem-and-leaf, 186–8, 192
Sternberg, Robert, 41, 84, 103, 239,
282, 285, study skills, style, 103–20, 133, 235–6, style guides, 119–20, subheadings, 76–94, subject, in sentences, subject, verb, object mnemonic,
114–17
subjects (in sentences, submitting a PhD, 209–16, subordinate clauses, subsections, 76–84, subtexts, 128, 132–3
Sun (newspaper), 84–5, supervisors, supervision, 1–11,
13–14, 29, 56–7, 140–2, 209–16,
224–6, 245, 248–9, suppressing the zero, 183, synopses, for dissertations, 53, systematic structures, tables, 90, tables, list of, 163
Tardif, T. Z, taught PhD model, 5–11, teaching, 196
Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre, 38, tenses, text, remodelling, 143–8
thematization, themes, integrating, 199–209, theories, handling, 14–15, 25, 38,
71–2, 90, 114, 118–19, theory, new, 30, thinking, 32–5
third-order subheadings, three effective digits rule, 275
three-dimensional (D) charts, Thurber, James (1894–1961), time bombs, 123, 225–6 2 9 INDEX div

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