Authoring a PhD: How to Plan, Draft, Write and Finish a Doctoral Thesis or Dissertation (Palgrave Study Guides)

Easy to read, clear, systematic guide to writing your PhD which is a daunting task - highly recommend

If you are starting your PhD Journey, it is a must read book.

Even though I'm only at the proposal stages of my PhD, this book has been a great introduction to PhD life and what might be expected of me.

I got this book when I was writing my MA dissertation and simultaneously writing research proposals for PhD applications. It's really a great idea for a book as it aims to fill in the blanks about what's involved in PhD writing that universities seem to think students know automatically. A lot of it will be things research students probably already know, but it's worth going through for the things you haven't thought of and to remind yourself what you're supposed to be doing when you're confused in the midst of all your writing. It's mostly focussed on organising chapters, paragraphs, etc. and presenting data - don't expect it to give you ideas for the content of your theory or research.It seems suited to social science/humanities subjects, and I found a lot of it could be applied to my MA dissertation, obviously adapting for the shorter length.

Highly recommended

The advise is very good but in the Kindle version you only get the text. This makes a whole chapter worthless as the chapter on layout for charts and diagrams is unusable without the examples the author talks about. I'm not sure why the publisher hasn't fixed this? Its not like the diagrams have been omitted - someone has actually typed out all the information as text! So they know there are no diagrams now - but the info is of no use at all. There are also no chapter names, just pdf files with numbers, which is annoying as you can't navigate the book easily.This book needs updating. The Kindle problems could be very easily fixed.The author also uses 'she' many times, which sounds odd now we tend to all use 'they'. The writing comes across as a bit out of date because of this, although I'm sure the majority of it is still relevant.Very useful book, shame about the Kindle version.

I would highly recommend this book. It is both detailed and clear. I feel much more prepared for my PhD now that I have read it.

Just the book to start a PhD very informative handy reference guide for the entirety of the degree. Will highly recommend