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This guide is intended to give you some basic principles you can apply to
make the thesis writing process easier and faster.
It will help you avoid the most common mistakes thesis writers make, and if
you follow the advice, you should be able to write faster.
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James Hayton, August 11th 2013
I never cited anything just because it existed. I never cited anything I hadn't
read, and I never cited anything I didn't understand.
It is essential to take a critical view of the literature, and not just blindly cite
every source you find. By setting a high standard for your references, you
show that you can distinguish good work from bad, and you ensure that
your bibliography is of high quality, rather than quantity.
There were a few unintended side effects of setting a high standard for my
references.
First, high quality papers are usually easier to read and to write about.
Second, I wanted to justify why the kind of research I was doing was
important. By first justifying why the top papers in the field were important,
my own research was justified simply by association- here are the top
papers, they are important because of X, Y, and Z, but there is a gap, which
my research happens to fill...
The third side effect, was that it lent to the feeling of quality in the thesis,
which is vitally important when trying to make a good first impression.
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