Firstly start to look in your university- maybe they have some special funds for students to help them to finish their studies.

lyra777: here is not a such thing as 'PhD programme' in Cambridge. There is no coursework, no exams, only research. All what you are expected to do is to do research and produce Thesis.

Almost any basic statistics book has so called "decision chart" or "decision tree". There are diferent questions about your data and answering to them you are lead to the right statistical test.

Oh, dear, the same here. Thanx to writing-up a PhD I have expanded from nice well-presented size 8 to size 12! I often find myself looking at my wardrobe (and in the empty bank account) and crying...nothing to wear

Commonsense: well, in history it sometimes has taken a century to realise how useful had been some apparently useless scientific discoveries...Nowadays academics are expected to predict the usefulness of something that has even not been discovered yet even before they get given a money for the research on it

There was an article in THES about this issue. Several Nobel prize laureates said that if they early in their career would have had to meet the criteria that are set for academics in many universities nowadays, they would have been kicked out of their jobs very early on and would never got to the Nobel. I do believe them.

the same here. Since I started writing up I have been constantly ill

My favorite is "There are two types of PhD thesis: perfect and submitted".

I have received ridiculous letters from HRM saying that they did not choose me for the job because 'somebody had a higher qualification' (the job was in my field). I wonder, what is higher than a PhD?
Another annoying thing is that before PhD I had no problems finding a job and even head-hunters were contacting me...that is not the case now.

I would think- a paragraph would do. Or for a short chapter- one to three sentences

One serious publication+ one extended book review.

But I think it very much varies between subjects. For example, in history it is normal not to publish anything during a PhD and then a book some years later while in natural sciences a paper per year is average.

one way is to start abstract not with the main grand finding (if you havent got it yet) but with an interesting questions you are gona aswer with your yet to be conducted experiment. T

Congratulations!!

Has anyone used and can(not) recommend any proof-reading service? I found some on the Internet but have no idea how to find out whether they are reliable or not;(

Does anyone has any suggestions/tips how to make a good PhD Thesis title? The problem is that I have studied two related but still different issues and they both have to be reflected in the title.