{"id":3387,"date":"2013-05-05T10:29:15","date_gmt":"2013-05-05T16:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/?p=3387"},"modified":"2014-09-12T11:48:45","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T17:48:45","slug":"how-not-to-write-a-phd-thesis-general-times-higher-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2013\/05\/05\/how-not-to-write-a-phd-thesis-general-times-higher-education\/","title":{"rendered":"How not to write a PhD thesis | General | Times Higher Education"},"content":{"rendered":"Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>

How not to write a PhD thesis | General | Times Higher Education<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Many of these apply to papers submitted for publication, generally. I have lost track of how many game papers I have reviewed where the authors had an idea, did what appeared to be a quickie Google search in their own discipline, and concluded that their idea was NEW! This seems to be ESPECIALLY true in Education.<\/p>\n

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  1. Submit an incomplete, poorly formatted bibliography.<\/li>\n
  2. Use phrases such as \u201csome academics\u201d or \u201call the literature\u201d without mitigating statements or references.<\/li>\n
  3. Write an abstract without a sentence starting \u201cmy original contribution to knowledge is\u2026\u201d<\/li>\n
  4. Fill the bibliography with references to blogs, online journalism and textbooks.<\/li>\n
  5. Use discourse, ideology, signifier, signified, interpellation, postmodernism, structuralism, post-structuralism or deconstruction without reading the complete works of Foucault, Althusser, Saussure, Baudrillard or Derrida.<\/li>\n
  6. Assume something you are doing is new because you have not read enough to know that an academic wrote a book on it 20 years ago.<\/li>\n
  7. Leave spelling mistakes in the script.<\/li>\n
  8. Make the topic of the thesis too large.<\/li>\n
  9. Write a short, rushed, basic exegesis.<\/li>\n
  10. Submit a PhD with a short introduction or conclusion.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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