phd

Hi Antonia,

Where do we put phd, before or after the name? After

John Johnson, Ph.D. phd? who teaches on the XY University

How would you introduce the person stating her/his phd and university where he/she works?

Thank you Clive. The context is academic.It's in a footnote, there's a quotation, and I have to state the source, and the source is this Phd person

0Clive (or anybody), could you specify the difference between academic and social contexts? I mean, not the difference between the 01i00contexts02i00, but as to the usage of the Ph.D. information in one or the other. Do "Dr. Colombo" and "Colombo, Ph.D." give the same information? Where should I use each? I suppose that "Dr. Colombo, Ph.D." is reiterative, isn't it? If I u

0Colombo, Ph.D. gives the most information. There are dozens of degrees that carry the doctor title with them, Ph.D being the most common.02br
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00Dr. Colombo is correct, but most people will think that's the title of a physician. They don't realize that the academic title came first.0-

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00Much depends on the context and on personal choice. A person with a PhD or MD might choose to introduce themselves at a party by simply saying 'I'm John Smith'. Or more formally, they might say My name is Dr. Smith. A PhD is 'written', not 'spoken'.02br
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00Rather than avoiding it, some people with a PhD even like to imply that they ar

0Thanks, Vorpar and Clive. Of course, at a party (or on 95% of occasions, for that matter) I would introduce myself by saying 'Hi, I'm Colombo'. Some other times, at work and such, I can say 'Dr. Colombo' without misleading anybody into believing I have a MD. It's on very few occasions that I don't know how to introduce myself, but now I know that a PhD is 'written', many doubts have been cleare