'Writing a Thesis'

Scope and Content

First published 1987. This subseries contains typescripts and correspondence. Items will ultimately be catalogued individually; for now, a list follows.
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Introductory notes for a course on 'Dissertations: Or How to Write' (13 October 1986)
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Typescript with manuscript corrections
Contents page
Typescript with additional manuscript corrections
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Sample cover
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Correspondence with Andrew McLennan and Mark Anderson of Longman. As this is a short correspondence with two figures from the same company, it has been considered one chronologically arranged file, and not sequenced alphabetically by correspondent as elsewhere in George Watson's papers.
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Folder labelled 'Watson: "Writing a Thesis" 4-12-85'

Administrative / Biographical History

George Grimes Watson was born in Brisbane, Australia, on 13 October 1927. He was educated at Brisbane Boys' College and the University of Queensland, where he graduated in 1948 with a degree in English. He secured a scholarship for a second degree and received an English degree from Trinity College, Oxford in 1950; he worked for the European Commission as an interpreter before becoming a lecturer in English at Cambridge in 1959 and a Fellow of St John's College in 1961. He remained at St John's until his death in 2013.
Watson edited 'The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature'. As well as producing wide-ranging literary and cultural criticism, he was involved in leftist politics, campaigning as a Liberal candidate in 1959 and 1979 and working as Editor for the Unservile State Group; his political writing often critiques socialism from a liberal perspective.

Note

George Grimes Watson was born in Brisbane, Australia, on 13 October 1927. He was educated at Brisbane Boys' College and the University of Queensland, where he graduated in 1948 with a degree in English. He secured a scholarship for a second degree and received an English degree from Trinity College, Oxford in 1950; he worked for the European Commission as an interpreter before becoming a lecturer in English at Cambridge in 1959 and a Fellow of St John's College in 1961. He remained at St John's until his death in 2013.
Watson edited 'The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature'. As well as producing wide-ranging literary and cultural criticism, he was involved in leftist politics, campaigning as a Liberal candidate in 1959 and 1979 and working as Editor for the Unservile State Group; his political writing often critiques socialism from a liberal perspective.

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