Editing Guide to technical writing (section)

==Why all the above rules are important for your PhD thesis==

Many years ago, whilst studying at the University of Cambridge, Ken Moxham from our Civil Engineering department saw the following passage: "Because of the impracticability of an examiner's establishing the details of the conduct of the research, the care with which a thesis is prepared will be taken as ''prima facie'' evidence of the care with which the research has been carried out."