title: Authoring a PhD Patrick Dunleavy Authoring a PhD Palgrave Macmillan No of pages: 300 £16.99 1403905843 1403905843 [Formula: see text].
abstract: This is a clever book. The author has recognised that potential PhD students are offered thorough advice regarding their chosen topic as well as areas such as data analysis, but when it comes to the crucial area of authoring skills advice can be scant or non-existent. This is clearly an oversight on the part of many educational establishments; the skills required in authoring a 'big book' style of PhD of some 80,000 to 100,000 words from conceptualisation through to completion are not innate.