The “onion problem” in PhD students’ writing: this means adding more and more stuff to your papers. By “stuff”, I mean concepts, theories, methods—-basically, more words on paper, more points to criticize. Dr. Ilkka said it well: the more you write, the more you expose possible weak points to the reviewers. Every sentence becomes under scrutiny, so the more sentences…
Associate Professor (tenure track) at the University of Vaasa, and Adjunct Professor at the Turku School of Economics. Based in Finland.