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How to Survive Your Doctorate
McGraw-Hill Education 2009; US$ 140.00Intends to present student perspectives (via case studies) on doing a PhD and offers potential PhD candidates an insight into 'real life'. This title also presents a light-hearted approach which looks at the everyday interpersonal, social and environmental issues associated with doing a PhD from application through to graduation. more...
Critical Reading and Writing for Postgraduates
SAGE Publications 2006; US$ 47.95This guide to critical reading and self-critical writing is a must-have resource for postgraduate students and early-career academics. It is packed with tools for analyzing texts and structuring critical reviews, and incorporating exercises and examples drawn from the social sciences. more...
The Ph.D. Trap Revisited
Dundurn 2000; US$ 11.99This book lays bare the faults of the Ph.D. program, showing that in most disciplines it is savage, mechanical, and cruel. more...
How To Get A Phd
McGraw-Hill Education 2010; US$ 140.00How to get a PhD is THE classic book on studying for a PhD. It provides a practical, down to earth and realistic approach to studying for a PhD and offers support and reassurance for both students and supervisors. more...
The Formation of Scholars
Wiley 2012; US$ 42.00This groundbreaking book explores the current state of doctoral education in the United States and offers a plan for increasing the effectiveness of doctoral education. Programs must grapple with questions of purpose. The authors examine practices and elements of doctoral programs and show how they can be made more powerful by relying on principles... more...
Dr Dr I feel like doing a PhD
Continuum International Publishing 2008; US$ 75.00This book explores what a PhD is and the challenges and rewards of completing this journey. There is no one way to complete a doctorate but there are a number of wrong ways, like having your ego flattered into it or because you can t think of what else you would like to do. This book is about what is like to submit yourself to the process of doing... more...
Advancing Your Career
R&L Education 2011; US$ 24.95Advancing Your Career aims to help readers look more broadly at the doctoral experience from choosing a program to coursework to passing your comprehensive exams to doing dissertation research and writing to graduation and beyond. more...
Out of the Comfort Zone
Morgan & Claypool Publishers 2010; US$ 25.00Success in careers outside the university setting depends on an individual's capacity to master professional skills and respond appropriately to dynamic situations with flexibility, adaptation, and innovative thinking. This book describes a simple, common sense method of how to include professional skills training in any curricula without compromising... more...
On Becoming a Scholar
Stylus Publishing 2010; US$ 23.99Despite considerable research that has provided a better understanding of the challenges of doctoral education, it remains the case that only 57% of all doctoral students will complete their programs. This book comprehensively critiques existing models and views of doctoral student socialization; offers a new model that incorporates concepts of identity... more...
Reshaping Doctoral Education
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 50.95The number of doctorates being awarded around the world has almost doubled over the last ten years, propelling it from a small elite enterprise into a large and ever growing international market. Within the context of increasing numbers of doctoral students this book examines the new doctorate environment and the challenges it is starting to face.... more...









