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Whether you undertaking a taught doctorate, or a course of study leading to a PhD, this book offers complete, up-to-date guidance and discussion on all aspects of successful doctoral work. The five experienced authors give advice on every stage in the process of completing a doctorate, from helping you to engage in critical reflection to better understand your own research biases, to useful guidelines on preparing for, and surviving, the viva. Combining general discussion with practical advice, this book is an essential companion to your research.

Topics include:

Preparing for a doctorate

Embarking on your Research

Adapting to life as a student

Working with a supervisor

Reading critically

Conceptualising your research

Thinking about methodologies and approaches

Producing a thesis

Preparing for and taking the viva

Disseminating your research.
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bears’ guide to College Degrees by Mail and Internet 9th Edition by the Editors of Degree.Net

With the rise of Internet-based education, distance learning has never been hotter, and more and more people are shedding the traditional notion that they’ve got to bow down to the ivory tower to get the degree they want. Through distance-learning schools, students all over the world are earning fully accredited undergraduate and graduate degrees without ever leaving home. In this guide, the editors of Degree.Net narrow down the field to 100 of the best accredited distance-learning providers in the world. Opinionated and conversational, COLLEGE DEGREES BY MAIL AND INTERNET sums up the latest trends and the best opportunities in the fastest growing area of education today..
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The development of students as “stewards of the discipline” should be the purpose of doctoral education.  A steward is a scholar in the fullest sense of the term—someone who can imaginatively generate new knowledge, critically conserve valuable and useful ideas, and responsibly transform those understandings through writing, teaching, and application. Stewardship also has an ethical and moral dimension; it is a role that transcends a collection of accomplishments and skills. A steward is someone to whom the vigor, quality, and integrity of the field can be entrusted. The most important period of a steward’s formation occurs during formal doctoral education.

  Envisioning the Future of Doctoral Education is a collection of essays commissioned for the Carnegie Initiative on the Doctorate. The question posed to the essayists in this volume was, “If you could start de novo, what would be the best way to structure doctoral education in your field to prepare stewards of the discipline?” The authors of the essays are respected thinkers, researchers, and scholars who are experienced with and thoughtful about doctoral education.

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In stark contrast to the undergraduates, new PhD students often find no framework for study, few deadlines and little peer support Working for a Doctorate addresses the problems of the research process, such as finance and time-management and offers practical guidance and specialist advice to both students and their supervisors. This volume is written by a team of experts who have had a long and successful experience of tutoring PhD students, and contains case studies of current and ex-PhD students. Working for a Doctorate explores issues such as gender, culture and the fundamental nature of the PhD. The book will be a vital guide and companion to anyone studying, supervising or contemplating a doctoral degree in the humanities or social sciences..
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"This publication represents a thorough updating of an earlier book that was, in its own right, very useful. The second edition ..is a significant improvement on its predecessor and I cannot recommend it highly enough for novice or experienced doctoral supervisors."
Journal of Adult and Continuing Education

• How can I get my students to produce good theses on time?
• My last student failed! What could I have done to prevent it?
• I am supposed to train the new supervisors in my faculty; where can I get some good ideas?

This new edition of Supervising the Doctorate still provides everything you ever wanted to know about the doctoral supervision but were afraid to ask! It includes:

• New material on supervising professional doctoral theses
• A new chapter on the changing policy context in higher education
• Latest research findings
• Experiential material from staff development sessions throughout the United Kingdom and New Zealand

Now that supervisor training is compulsory, this practical, no-nonsense handbook is essential reading for both the novice and the experienced higher degree supervisor. For novices there is a developmental sequence of advice, guiding them through all stages of supervision from the first meeting to the viva and beyond. For experienced supervisors there are fresh ideas on how to improve practice and solve problems.

Grounded in research, this book is invaluable to academics in all disciplines. At a time when there is increasing pressure to ensure 'quality' provision, to improve the doctoral completion rate, and to turn out employable graduates, the need for a practical guide is obvious. An essential item for every academic's bookshelf..
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In Pursuit of a Doctorate is a collection of graduate papers that reflect the author’s scholarship and research on topics of interest in post secondary and adult education. The book is divided into two parts: Part I begins with discussions of philosophy, ideology and theory, both personal and established. It continues with discussions about teaching, learning, social conservatism vs. liberalism, modernity, adult learning theory, transformative learning, collaborative learning, learning communities, and research methodology. Part II contains information about the concerns, opinions and expectations of college instructors. It includes discussions about professional development, mentoring, instructional approaches, tenure and retention.

In Pursuit of a Doctorate addresses timely post-secondary and adult education topics from the perspective of a recent Ph.D. graduate with many years of experience as an instructor and administrator at non-profit and proprietary post-secondary schools. It informs the reader. It provides insight into higher education. In Pursuit of a Doctorate continues the discussion on important topics in higher education.

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This volume reports the results of an extensive study of U.S. research-doctorate programs in five broad fields--physical sciences and mathematics, engineering, social and behavioral sciences, biological sciences, and the humanities. It documents changes that have taken place in the size, structure, and quality of doctoral education and includes information on 4,000 doctoral programs..
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