Dear gang,
Here is a link to the dissertation support group document that I mentioned at the first meeting:
And here is more information about the books that I mentioned :
1. Strunk and White, The Elements of Style
This is a classic writing guide for English writing that we are often recommended as undergraduates. E.B. White also wrote the children’s book Charlotte’s Web.
The book contains some specific rules about writing, but its recommendation of style is summed up here:
Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline, but that every word tell.—Elementary Principles of Composition, The Elements of Style
You can read more about it here:
The book is available in the Mahidol Library.
2. Becker, Howard S. Writing for Social Scientists
I found this book extremely helpful when I wrote my dissertation. It contains great tips about motivation and overcoming writer’s block.
(from the author)
Down-home advice on how to avoid the problems of writing that plague students, professors, and everyone who wants to tell what their research has taught them about society. Plenty of advice, plenty of illuminating stories, all designed to make writing more fun and less of a pain. (Some people tell me that just putting the book under their pillow at night cured all their problems, but I don’t believe them.) This new edition brings the chapter on computers up-to-the-minute and comments on length on new developments in academic life that have made writing problems worse than they used to be
Book Description
Publication Date: December 15, 2007 | ISBN-10: 0226041328 | ISBN-13: 978-0226041322 | Edition: 2
You can read parts of the book and see the table of contents on the Amazon page:
http://tinyurl.com/7ugg8qj
I will get a copy of the book from the library and talk about it more in future meetings.
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