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

By: Series: Palgrave study guidesPublication details: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, c2008.Edition: 2nd editionDescription: xi, 428 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0230521304 (alk. paper)
  • 9780230521308 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • W 20.5 W814p 2008
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Contents:
Contents part. 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 part. 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 part. 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 part. 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 research
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 414-424) and index.

Contents

part. 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

part. 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

part. 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

part. 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 research

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