The key to a successful PhD thesis? Write in your own voice.
Make sure you meet the PhD requirements for your institution. “PhD students and their supervisors often presume things without checking. One supervisor told his student that a PhD was about 300 pages long so he wrote 300 pages. Unfortunately the supervisor had meant double-spaced, and the student had written single-spaced. Getting rid of 40,000 extra words with two weeks to go is not recommended.”
Hannah Farrimond, lecturer in medical sociology, Exeter University