Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Compilation – the article-based thesis
- 3 Front cover illustration
- 4 Title
- 5 Abstract
- 6 Quotations
- 7 Thesis at a glance
- 8 Abbreviations
- 9 List of publications
- 10 Contributors
- 11 Popularized summary
- 12 Acknowledgments
- 13 General introduction
- 14 Aims
- 15 Methods
- 16 Results
- 17 General discussion
- 18 Copyright
- 19 A dissertation worth considering
- Appendix A To the authorities at the graduate division
- Literature cited
- Index
10 - Contributors
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Compilation – the article-based thesis
- 3 Front cover illustration
- 4 Title
- 5 Abstract
- 6 Quotations
- 7 Thesis at a glance
- 8 Abbreviations
- 9 List of publications
- 10 Contributors
- 11 Popularized summary
- 12 Acknowledgments
- 13 General introduction
- 14 Aims
- 15 Methods
- 16 Results
- 17 General discussion
- 18 Copyright
- 19 A dissertation worth considering
- Appendix A To the authorities at the graduate division
- Literature cited
- Index
Summary
If papers included in your thesis have several authors, you must indicate which portions of the papers are your own work and which are the work of your co-workers. Some universities require that all authors sign a statement of their contribution. In other universities, especially in Scandinavia, the candidates themselves write a contribution list stating what each person did, as described in the following.
Every research project is divided into four main parts: designing the project, collecting the material, analyzing the results, and writing the paper. Because writing the paper is a major intellectual part of the research work, it is what counts most in the eyes of the examiner at the oral defense of a thesis.
Some graduate students have not written all the individual papers on their own – or, even worse, written none of them. They may indicate their contribution to the writing in different ways. Consider this:
I. The author … wrote most of the manuscript.
II. The author … wrote a major part of the manuscript.
III. The author … assisted in writing the manuscript.
IV. The author wrote a significant part of the manuscript.
V. The author … wrote a substantial part of the manuscript. [Emphasis added.]
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012