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
3 - Front cover illustration
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
A journalist from a daily newspaper was one of the teachers at a course on scientific writing. During a break she looked into a thesis overview. (At that time the overview was published separately from the research papers.) She paged through the publication and then said:
Not a single illustration, not even a cover picture.
Still – about forty years later – in technology, a picture on a thesis cover is seldom seen, nor does one occur often in medicine. However, in biology, it has become the norm.
In biology, an animal studied does not need be camouflaged to be portrayed on the cover. In medicine, the need of disguising a patient studied is a problem. On the next page we have one example of how the problem could be solved – by showing the individual in silhouette (Figure 3.1).
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012