Hey,
I've used Nexis to do a newspaper review and I'm just wondering if I need to reference it?
I'll reference individual articles as and when I need to, but unsure about the database itself? If I need to - how? The fields in Refworks ask for when the site was updated etc, but this doesn't feel quite right somehow

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Thank you so much! I really appreciate it!

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Thank you for all your replies! I've had a look at the definitions and think I'll be using a preface! I'm jsut amazed I have managed to get to this stage of my PhD without realising I need to do one! :$

Hi Natassia,

I use Refworks (similar program) and my advice would be to USE IT!! It has been invaluable to my work.  Basically Refworks stores your references and when you write a reference in a document you link it to the Refworks database you have created. When you have finished writing and need to compile a reference list it does it for you! 

I currently have a database of well over 500 references and there is no way I could manage those manually. You can organise them according to subject and you can add your own notes. 

When I come to the end of my thesis I will click a couple of buttons and my entire reference list will be collated for me. I have friends who have spent weeks and weeks compiling their references at the end of their PhDs and mine will be compiled within a few clicks

As I said I use refworks, but I think the process is similar and I would recommend you utilise EndNote - It will save you soooo much time!  It is just a question of getting into the habit of using it and putting your references into the database.

I would recommend all PhD and Master students use it - it just saves so much time. I have friends who didn't and they really regret it now

Sending lots of virtual hugs your way

So sorry you are going through a bad patch - it's so hard to focus isn't it when you are feeling so low? I can completely empathise

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Hey,

I'm just wondering whether I should add an introduction to my PhD?

My literature review has been done in stand alone chapters and so I have no section of text that describes the structure and format of the thesis. Have you done a separate introduction in yours?

It seems a fairly obvious addition, but I'm a little concerned I haven't considered it before (want to submit in the summer!!) :$

Also - What is the difference between a preface and an introduction?!

Hi,

I was wondering if anyone has access to the following articles? Your help would be much appreciated! :-) Thank you!!!


G B Stickler & M Salter. Have Parents lost control of their children? Clinical Pediatrics, April, 1994, 33(4), 249-251

G B Stickler. Worries of Parents and their Children. Clinical Pediatrics, February, 1996, 35(2), 84-90.

G B Stickler, M Salter, D. D. Broughton, & A Alario. Parents' Worries about Children Compared to Actual Risks. Clinical Pediatrics, September, 1991, 30, 522-528

I'd like to think that no-one on this site would actually consider using such an awful service. If you care enough about your PhD to join a PhD forum you wouldn't dream of using such a service.

I would imagine most of their 'clients' are undergraduates who can't be arsed to work for a degree and are only at uni for a 3 year p*ss-up

I don't think it's illegal because they don't ask their 'clients' to pass off the work as their own, but obviously the 'clients' end up doing that anyway.

It's such a horrendous service - Cheating with profit :-s

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If only I'd thought of this several years ago! I could already be a high flying academic by now!! Damn my morality - it's causing me to do so much unnecessary work!

Hi,
I think it depends uni to uni - even department to department! I would contact the people you are interested in working with and they will be able to advise you further

The dog bed makes more sense now - had images of you curled up in a small dog basket... the kind of thing you imagine someone doing before they are carted away by the men in white coats ;-)

Sleeping on the dog bed is a strange one sneaks! How on earth did that develop?

I wouldn't count that as a guilty pleasure Bonzo - just part of being a PhD student! I regularly imagine post-PhD spending!

I'd second what XJR has said

How long a break do you want to take? If it's a few months your uni might be able to arrange a leave of absence

It is an addiction some of my friends have developed. I'm planning on never picking one up as a result!

I've just enjoyed a guilty pleasure and wondered what yours were? This shall be a confidential and non-judgemental thread with no mocking allowed (ok maybe just a little mocking!)

My guilty pleasure is.... looking at trashy celebrities on twitter :$ I don't even follow them because I don't want to go 'public' with my interest

Ok your turn... 'fess up!