Resource of the Week #180: More on Theses and Papers Resulting from Them

Hello again. As you may recall, last week we featured a presentation by Bernard Appiah on writing journal articles based on one’s thesis.

A few days earlier, Andy Nobes at INASP happened to mention a resource on a similar topic. It’s a presentation titled “The Research Process and Write-up”. This presentation contains much good advice, and so it’s our current Resource of the Week.

The presentation is by Steven J. Armstrong, Professor of Organisational Behaviour at Hull University Business School (in the United Kingdom). Among the topics that it addresses are

• roles and responsibilities of PhD students and their supervisors
• the structure of a thesis
• the publication process

One useful part of this presentation is a list of items that examiners (thesis reviewers) dislike. Another favorite part is the statement “Research should be written ‘down’ before, during, and at the end of the research—not just ‘up’ after it is over!”

Because doctoral education differs somewhat among settings, some points in this presentation might not always apply. However, most of the content seems widely applicable.

If you’re doing a thesis—or if you’re supervising someone doing a thesis—I encourage you to look at this resource.

Until next post—

Barbara