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How to get a PhD : a handbook for students and their supervisors

Estelle Phillips (Author), Derek Salman Pugh (Author)
This is a handbook and survival manual for PhD students providing a practical, realistic understanding of the processes of doing research for a doctrate
Print Book, English, 2010
Fifth edition, revised and updated View all formats and editions
McGraw-Hill/Open University Press, Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, 2010
xvi, 258 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9780335242023, 9780335242030, 0335242022, 0335242030
968439118
On becoming a research student
Getting into the system
The nature of the PhD qualification
How not to get a PhD
How to do research
The form of a PhD thesis
Writing your PhD
The PhD process
How to manage your supervisors
Equal opportunities for non-traditional research students (i.e. women
with some comments for men
international, mature and part-time students
Equal opportunities for minority grioup research students (i.e. ethnic minority students, gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender students, students with chronic medical conditions and disabled students)
The examination system
How to get a professional doctorate (ProfD)
How to supervise and examine
Institutional responsibilities
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