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1 online resource (295 p.) |
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Welcome -- About the Author -- I. Right from the Very Start -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. So you are doing a PhD? -- 1.1.1. What is a PhD? -- 1.1.2. Is a PhD more than a thesis? -- 1.1.3. Criteria used to judge PhD studies -- 1.1.4. Who are the examiners? -- 1.1.5. What will you do after your PhD? -- 1.1.6. Think about your career before you start your PhD -- 1.1.7. Don't rely on becoming an academic -- 1.1.8. Doing a PhD is really hard work -- 1.1.9. Your mental health will likely suffer -- 1.1.10. Any PhD has to be yours -- 1.1.11. Does it matter where you do your PhD? -- 1.1.12. What to look for in an advisor -- 1.1.13. What to avoid in an advisor -- 1.1.14. What makes a good project? -- 1.1.15. Funding your PhD studies -- 2. Reconciling Yourself to Doing Things You've Been Avoiding -- 2.1. And learning lots of other stuff... -- 3. The Scientific Project and Scientific Living -- 3.1. Example: Invasive species -- 3.2. Should society lead the sciences or sciences lead society? -- 3.3. Carl Sagan's "Baloney detection kit" -- 3.4. Live your life scientifically -- 3.5. Citizen science -- 4. Keeping Track of Your Mental Health -- 4.1. Being physically active improves mental wellbeing -- 4.2. Time to think -- 4.3. Balancing work with life -- II. The Nuts and Bolts of Writing for the Biological Sciences -- 5. How to Get Started with Writing -- 5.1. How to write a hypothesis -- 5.1.1. What is a hypothesis? -- 5.1.2. What a hypothesis isn't -- 5.1.3. A formulaic way to start writing your hypothesis -- 5.1.4. Teleological versus causal hypotheses -- 5.1.5. How to evaluate your hypothesis -- 6. Being Aware That You Can Get It Wrong -- 6.1. Changing the likelihood of a hypothesis -- 6.2. Increasing the statistical power |
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7. What Happens If You Don't Have a Hypothesis? -- 7.1. Central problem -- 7.2. Does it matter that you don't have a hypothesis? -- 7.3. Avoid HARKing -- 8. What's the Big Idea? -- 8.1. So where would we find these big ideas? -- 9. Writing a Paragraph -- 9.1. Topic sentence -- 9.2. Supporting sentences -- 9.3. The magic of threes -- 9.4. Use an example -- 9.5. Avoid lists -- 9.6. The last sentence of the paragraph: The clincher -- 9.7. Above all -- read it! -- 9.8. How does the paragraph fit into the flow? -- 9.9. Seeding ideas -- 9.10. Breaking the rules -- 9.11. Some common paragraph mistakes -- 10. Construct a Logical Argument in Your Writing -- 10.1. Arguments in Latin -- 10.2. Other arguments in English -- 11. Storytelling in Science? -- 11.1. The danger of a teleological argument -- 11.2. Science is the very opposite of storytelling. Or is it? -- 11.3. Can storytelling help memory of science? -- 12. Why Do You Need to Cite? -- 12.1. Research is built on existing work and ideas -- 12.2. Your citations say a lot about you -- 12.3. Cite while you write (not afterwards) -- 12.4. Citation styles -- 12.4.1. Vancouver style -- 12.4.2. Harvard style -- 12.5. Moving from Harvard to Vancouver -- 12.6. Where within a sentence should the citation come? -- 12.7. What about the order of the citations in a string? -- 12.8. What about citations as taxonomic authorities? -- 12.9. Is it possible to mis-cite? -- 12.10. Should I cite without reading the paper? -- 12.11. What should I not cite? -- 12.12. Do I cite the review or the primary literature? -- 12.13. What is primacy and why does it matter? -- 12.14. How many citations are enough? -- 12.15. Should I cite myself? -- 12.16. Should I cite my friends? -- 12.17. Does the impact factor of the cited article matter? -- 13. Literature Databases -- 13.1. Searching the literature using a database -- 13.2. Keywords |
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13.2.1. Boolean terms or operators -- 13.2.2. Proximity operators and parentheses -- 13.2.3. Wildcards -- 13.2.4. Combining searches -- 13.3. Moving items into your reference manager -- 13.4. Citation searches -- 13.4.1. What else are literature databases used for? -- 13.5. Administrators want metrics -- 13.6. Searching by scientist's name -- 13.6.1. Overcoming the difficulties of common names -- 13.7. Google Scholar, Web of Science or Scopus? -- 13.8. What's the difference between indices? -- 14. Reference Managers -- 14.1. Other points to consider -- 15. What Software Should I Use to Write My PhD? -- 15.1. Alternatives to conventional word processors -- 15.2. Naming versions of files -- 15.3. How many versions of each file should you keep? -- 16. How to Get Around the Paywall -- 16.0.1. Go to your library -- 16.0.2. Look for links from Google Scholar -- 16.0.3. Google the title in quotes -- 16.0.4. Go to the author websites and look for links -- 16.0.5. Go to the institutional repository of the author -- 16.0.6. Go to an academic social media site -- 16.0.7. Go into the black open access -- 16.0.8. Use your contacts at other universities -- 16.0.9. Go back to your librarian and ask them for help -- 16.0.10. Get an interlibrary loan -- 17. Scientific Names and Taxonomic Authorities -- 17.1. Scientific names -- 17.1.1. Consider this example -- 17.2. Different codes for the nomenclature of different taxa -- 17.2.1. Peculiarities of plant taxonomy -- 17.2.2. Other times to use italics -- 17.3. Common names -- 17.4. Should common names have capitals? -- 17.4.1. View 1 -- Yes -- 17.4.2. View 2 -- No -- 18. Writing Style -- 18.1. Develop your writing style -- 18.2. Don't bamboozle -- 19. Retaining Your Own Voice When Writing -- 19.1. Does writing 'I' or 'we' help people to understand who you are? -- 19.2. The Vonnegut advice -- 20. Writing Concisely |
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20.1. Rule 1. Take writing seriously -- 20.2. Rule 2: Identify and stick to your message -- 20.3. Rule 3: Get to the point -- 20.4. Rule 4: Keep your methods and results contained -- 20.5. Rule 5: Do not repeat yourself (too often) -- 20.6. Rule 6: Avoid unnecessary or inefficient 'lead-ins' -- 20.7. Rule 7: Use first-person, active voice -- 20.8. Rule 8: Remove unnecessary words -- 20.9. Rule 9: Simplify your language -- 20.10. Rule 10: Seek and embrace feedback -- 20.11. Rule 11: Read it yourself -- 21. Writing a PhD If English Is Not Your First Language -- 21.1. Message from an editor -- 21.2. Must a 'native English speaker' check your work? -- 21.3. So if not a native English speaker, who should do it? -- 21.4. But surely my native tongue can be used for something? -- 22. Making Sure That You Don't Plagiarise -- 22.1. How to know if you have plagiarised -- 22.2. What to do if plagiarism is detected in your work -- 22.3. How can you make sure that you never plagiarise? -- 22.4. What is autoplagiarism? -- 23. Academic Phrasebank -- 23.1. How to find the phrase that you need -- 23.2. Getting started -- 24. Why Critical Reading Is Crucial for Improving Your Writing -- 24.1. Making notes on good and bad styles -- 24.2. Some examples -- 24.3. Make handwritten notes -- 24.4. Recognising good or bad in what you read -- 25. What Is Needed for Your Research Proposal? -- 25.1. Structure -- 25.2. Proposal introduction -- 25.3. Methods and materials -- 25.4. Hypothetical results -- 25.5. Your proposal -- what is it good for? -- 25.5.1. Copy and paste directly into your thesis -- 25.5.2. Use it to raise money to do your studies. -- 25.5.3. Deposit the proposal to conform to Design and Analysis Transparency -- 26. Making a Presentation from Your Chapter, Paper or Proposal -- 26.1. So where do you start? |
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26.1.1. Here are some simple rules to help guide you to build your presentation -- 26.1.2. A formula for presenting a proposal -- 26.2. Know your story first and then make your presentation -- 26.3. Slide layout -- 26.4. Practice, practice, practice -- 27. Starting Out Transparent -- 27.1. Preregistration -- 27.1.1. Does this mean that you can't perform any data exploration? -- 27.1.2. Will preregistration of research eliminate the bias from science? -- 27.1.3. What platform should you use? -- 27.2. Transparency as you move forwards -- 28. Generating Funding for Your PhD Research -- 28.1. Funding databases -- 28.2. Reasons you might want to apply for funding -- 28.2.1. Mendeley: //www.mendeley.com/ -- 28.2.2. Open 4 Research: https://www.open4research.eu -- 28.2.3. Research Professional: https://www.researchprofessional.com/ -- 28.2.4. Opportunities in your department or societies -- 29. Fear of Submitting Written Work -- 29.1. What is impostor syndrome? -- 29.2. Think of it this way -- 29.3. What can you do to help yourself overcome the fear of submitting written work? -- 29.4. When is it good enough to submit to my advisor? -- 30. Why Use a Formula to Structure Each Chapter or Paper? -- 30.1. So what is the formula? -- 30.1.1. My take on how to write a formula paper -- 30.1.2. Start with an outline -- 30.1.3. Next flesh out the outline with citations -- 30.1.4. Lastly it's time to write the text -- 31. Data Management -- 31.1. Should the cloud be the only copy of your data? -- 31.2. Backing up in the field -- 31.3. Make a data management plan, and stick to it -- III. The Sections of Your Chapter -- 32. Writing the Sections That Make up Your Data Chapter -- 32.1. Title page -- 32.1.1. Names and addresses are important -- 32.2. The title -- 32.2.1. Some title ideas to start you off -- 32.2.2. Things to avoid in your title -- 32.3. Keywords |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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Dissertations, Academic -- Guidebooks
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Biology -- Authorship
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Biology -- Authorship
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Dissertations, Academic
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Guidebooks
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000468465 |
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1000468461 |
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