How to Survive Your PhD: The Insider's Guide to Avoiding Mistakes, Choosing the Right Program, Working with Professors, and Just How a Person Actually Writes a 200-Page Paper
The decisions you make before and during your doctoral work can mean the difference between having a PhD in four years or eight. How to Survive Your PhD offers practical and specific advice for each step in the doctoral process, no matter the individual's field of study. With insider tips and tricks to help avoid mistakes, take advantage of opportunities, and tackle the toughest issues...
"Beyond Doctorates Downunder" is the third book in the highly successful "Doctorates Downunder" trilogy published by ACER Press. The first, "Doctorates Downunder" (2006), helps candidates complete their doctorates, and the second, "Supervising Doctorates Downunder" (2007), helps supervisors with their vital tasks to assist candidates during research training.
This book is about doctoral study. The context is a disparate group of countries from around the world and the purpose is to better understand the way in which postgraduate research is organized and delivered. We intended the better understanding to arise from informed descriptions of doctoral processes and procedures in the various countries sampled.
Takes readers through the process of writing the qualitative dissertation. Shares the author's and many correspondents' understandings of and reflections on how it feels and what it means to do qualitative research for the doctoral dissertation.
