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The postgraduate research handbook : succeed with your MA, MPhil, EdD and PhD / ​ Gina Wisker.

By: Material type: TextTextProducer: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008Edition: 2nd edDescription: xi, 428 p. : ill. ; 22 cmContent type:
  • unmediated
Media type:
  • text
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780230521308
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 001.42 WIS 2008
Contents:
Pt.1. Starting research Starting your postgraduate research Choosing the right research degree Choosing your supervisor(s) Research questions and hypotheses Research methodologies Conceptual frameworks Ethics and confidentially Writing a research proposal Pt.2. Getting going - supervisors, time and community Managing your supervisor (s) Managing the balancing act Managing your time and tasks Learning as a research student - learning approaches, styles and pitfalls Developing a supportive research culture locally and at a distance Pt.3. Carrying out the research and starting to write Carrying out a literature review - developing the theorectical perspectives chapter Methods in brief Using grounded theory, case studies, journals and synectics Action research and practitioner-based research Problem solving or enquiry-based research and problems solving Research methods for the arts and humanities Pt.4. Support, progress, analysis, writing up, the viva, presentations and afterwards Being organised, keeping records, writing up, stage-by-stage Writing the thesis or dissertation Overcoming writing blocks and learning from feedback Analysing data and thinking about findings Learning from feedback Writing transfer documents and progress reports for MPhil, EdD and PhD thesis Writing up: definitions and qualities of a good MA, MPhil, EdD and PhD thesis Preparing your thesis and dissertation - coherence, conclusions and conceptual level work Dealing with corrections - Life after Viva .. Presentations, conferences and publishing.
Summary: "This lively, rigorous and research-informed book is essential reading on any postgraduate course. Providing you with invaluable guidance on how to plan and conduct your research, The Postgraduate Research Handbook helps keep your momentum going, shows how you can enjoy the research process itself and ultimately ensures you are able to produce a high-quality dissertation of thesis. Revised and updated throughout, the second edition includes additional material on methodology and theorising, as well as content on the skills needed to succeed after your study is completed."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pt.1. Starting research Starting your postgraduate research Choosing the right research degree Choosing your supervisor(s) Research questions and hypotheses Research methodologies Conceptual frameworks Ethics and confidentially Writing a research proposal Pt.2. Getting going - supervisors, time and community Managing your supervisor (s) Managing the balancing act Managing your time and tasks Learning as a research student - learning approaches, styles and pitfalls Developing a supportive research culture locally and at a distance Pt.3. Carrying out the research and starting to write Carrying out a literature review - developing the theorectical perspectives chapter Methods in brief Using grounded theory, case studies, journals and synectics Action research and practitioner-based research Problem solving or enquiry-based research and problems solving Research methods for the arts and humanities Pt.4. Support, progress, analysis, writing up, the viva, presentations and afterwards Being organised, keeping records, writing up, stage-by-stage Writing the thesis or dissertation Overcoming writing blocks and learning from feedback Analysing data and thinking about findings Learning from feedback Writing transfer documents and progress reports for MPhil, EdD and PhD thesis Writing up: definitions and qualities of a good MA, MPhil, EdD and PhD thesis Preparing your thesis and dissertation - coherence, conclusions and conceptual level work Dealing with corrections - Life after Viva .. Presentations, conferences and publishing.

"This lively, rigorous and research-informed book is essential reading on any postgraduate course. Providing you with invaluable guidance on how to plan and conduct your research, The Postgraduate Research Handbook helps keep your momentum going, shows how you can enjoy the research process itself and ultimately ensures you are able to produce a high-quality dissertation of thesis. Revised and updated throughout, the second edition includes additional material on methodology and theorising, as well as content on the skills needed to succeed after your study is completed."--BOOK JACKET.