ERIC Number: ED397759
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1996
Pages: 221
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ISBN: ISBN-0-335-19611-X
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The Research Student's Guide to Success.
Cryer, Pat
This practical guide offers a British perspective to beginning, pursuing, and completing a research degree and is designed to aid graduate students in addressing a wide range of new and unfamiliar roles, expectations, and needs. Some issues addressed are specific to foreign students. An introductory section describes the guide's rationale and structure. Subsequent chapters address these topics: registering for the research degree; preparing for the graduate student's way of life; settling in as a new research student; recognizing good research; interacting with supervisor(s); keeping records; planning ahead; managing self and time; taking responsibility for making progress; cooperating with others for mutual help and support; producing reports; giving presentations; landmarks, hurdles, and transferring from MPhil degree to the PhD; coming to terms with originality in research; developing skills for creative thinking; dealing with self-doubt; producing the thesis; preparing for conducting oneself in the examination; and what comes after the degree. A list of further readings, selected bibliography, references, and useful addresses are included. A subject index is included. (Contains 39 references.) (MSE)
Descriptors: College Choice, College Faculty, Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Needs, Financial Support, Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Graduate Study, Guides, Higher Education, Interpersonal Competence, Life Style, Masters Theses, Proposal Writing, Recordkeeping, Research, Research Projects, Research Skills, School Registration, Stress Variables, Student Adjustment, Student Responsibility, Student Role, Study Skills, Success, Supervision, Supervisors, Teacher Role, Teacher Student Relationship, Technical Writing, Theses, Time Management
Open University Press, 1900 Frost Road, Suite 101, Bristol, PA 19007 (paperback: ISBN-0-335-19611-X, $23.95; hardcover: ISBN-0-335-19612-8).
Publication Type: Guides - Non-Classroom; Books
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Audience: Students
Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom
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