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Mastering Your PhD: Survival and Success in the Doctoral Years and Beyond

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This book helps guide PhD students through their graduate student days. Filled with practical advice on getting started, communicating with your supervisor, staying the course, and planning for the future, this book is a handy guide for graduate students who need that extra bit of help getting started and making it through. It concentrates on critical skills and tactics that are overlooked by many other how-to guides.

Author(s): Patricia A. Gosling, Bart D. Noordam,
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2006

Language: English
Pages: 156
Tags: Диссертационная работа (подготовка и защита);

front-matter.pdf......Page 1
Introduction......Page 9
Getting Started......Page 14
Setting Goals and Objectives......Page 18
How to Think Like a Scientist......Page 27
Designing Good Experiments......Page 33
Charting your Progress Month by Month......Page 42
Dealing with Setbacks......Page 48
The Art of Good Communication or How to get along with your lab mates et al.......Page 55
The Art of Good Communication......Page 69
Searching the Scientific Literature......Page 79
Your First International Conference......Page 84
From Data to Manuscript......Page 93
Celebrate Your Success......Page 102
How to Cope with Your Annual Evaluation......Page 106
The Final Year......Page 114
Putting it all Together......Page 124
Writing Your Doctoral Thesis with Style......Page 135
The Final Act......Page 145
Lessons Learned......Page 151
back-matter......Page 155