Stepping Stones To Achieving Your Doctorate: By Focusing On Your Viva From The Start: Focusing on your viva from the startThis book focuses specifically on how you, as a doctoral candidate, can raise your level of thinking about your chosen topic. Doing so will improve the quality of your research and ultimately contribute to knowledge. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The end is where we start from | 11 |
What is doctorateness? | 33 |
Architecture of the doctoral thesis | 53 |
Exploiting the literature | 67 |
Thinking about research design | 89 |
Whats in a word? | 109 |
How to conclude your thesis in one chapter | 127 |
The magic circle putting it all together | 156 |
Preparing for the viva | 180 |
Dynamics of the doctoral viva | 200 |
References | 231 |
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Back cover | 246 |
The abstract | 147 |
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