Stepping stones to achieving your doctorate : focusing on your viva from the start / Vernon Trafford and Shosh Leshem.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Trafford, Vernon.

Contributor:

Leshem, Shosh.

Series:

Open UP study skills.

Open UP study skills

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Doctor of education degree.

Doctor of philosophy degree.

Dissertations, Academic.

Education--Research--Methodology.

Education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (263 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Maidenhead : Open University Press ; New York : McGraw-Hill, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The starting point to achieve your doctorate is to appreciate how examiners examine doctoral theses. This book focuses on how doctoral candidates can raise levels of thinking about their topic, their research process and their contribution(s) to knowledge. It emphasises the nature of conceptualization sought by examiners within theses.

Contents:

Front Cover; Half title; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; List of examples; List of figures; List of tables; List of tasks; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: The end is where we start from; Chapter 3: What is doctorateness?; Chapter 4: Architecture of the doctoral thesis; Chapter 5: Exploiting the literature; Chapter 6: Thinking about research design; Chapter 7: What's in a word?; Chapter 8: How to conclude your thesis in one chapter; Chapter 9: The abstract; Chapter 10: The magic circle: putting it all together; Chapter 11: Preparing for the viva

Chapter 12: Dynamics of the doctoral vivaReferences; Index; Author name index; Back cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-281-95327-X

9786611953270

0-335-22542-X

0-335-23697-9

OCLC:

437089234