PhD dissertation notes
It needs to tell a story.
My first couple of chapters are a bit random in that they really don’t flow and it isn’t obvious why examples and bits and pieces are there. They don’t flow, they don’t lead the reader towards ideas, they really don’t serve their purpose well. Basically, I didn’t define what their purpose was very well when writing them. Not particularly surpising given how quickly I chucked them together.
So I’m currently looking at my literature review chapter in light of this, and thinking how to improve it. It was much better planned than the previous two chapters, but still needs some work to make it more cohesive. I think there are some problems in the flow still. My plan is to work on getting the introduction and conclusion of the chapter good, and work a bit on mini-introductions for sections within the chapter. Hopefully then it will all make sense to the reader and they’ll know why it is there and why it is useful to know what the chapter is saying.