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Succeeding with your doctorate
- Title
- Succeeding with your doctorate / Jerry Wellington [and others].
- Publication
- London ; Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage Publications, 2005.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | LB2369 .S825 2005 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Wellington, J. J. (Jerry J.)
- Description
- xi, 228 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.
- Summary
- This work offers guidance and discussion on all aspects of successful doctoral work. The authors advise on every stage in the process of completing a doctorate, from helping to engage in critical reflection to useful guidelines on preparing for, and surviving, the viva.
- Series Statement
- Sage study skills
- Uniform Title
- Sage study skills.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- dissertations.
- Academic theses
- Handbooks and manuals
- Academic theses.
- Thèses et écrits académiques.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-223) and index.
- Contents
- 1. What is a doctorate and why do people do them? -- 2. How did I get here? : an auto/biographical approach -- Cameo 1. The long and winding road that led me to an EdD course / Jean Clarkson -- Cameo 2. How our experiences influence the research topics we choose / Alan Hearsum -- 3. Learning on the doctoral journey -- Cameo. Spiralling into control : a research journey / Tracy Marshall -- 4. Framing the research -- Cameo. How I theorised my thesis -- my story / Carolyn Mason -- 5. Reviewing the literature -- Cameo. Reviewing the literature / John O'Neill -- 6. Doing research reflecting on methods : methodology and ethics -- Cameo. Methodology and methods / Bernard Longden -- 7. Approaching research as lived experience -- Cameo. Queer matters in methodology / Mark Vicars -- 8. Writing and the writing process in a doctoral programme -- Cameo. Me and my writing process / Kathryn Roberts -- 9. Production values in the doctoral thesis -- Cameo. Writing the thesis -- a personal account from which it might be hard to generalise much / Paul Machon -- 10. Presenting your work at the viva -- Cameo. Surviving the viva / Maxine Burton -- 11. Whatever next? Spreading the word and becoming part of the research community -- Cameo. The doctoral experience -- bearing fruit /Marion Jones.
- ISBN
- 1412901154
- 9781412901154
- 1412901162
- 9781412901161
- LCCN
- 2004116091
- OCLC
- ocm57484043
- 57484043
- SCSB-8905074
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library