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"I feel grateful to have found this book only a year into my PhD. It has opened my eyes to the world of academia. There is more to a PhD than just research in the sense of working on a problem, getting some results and publishing your findings. This book has allowed me to open my eyes and see all the other things I should be doing to fully succeed at my endeavour of becoming a researcher myself."
Dominic Hosler, University of Sheffield
Dominic Hosler, University of Sheffield
This bestselling book on the process of PhD research provides readers with engaging discussion and comprehensive guidance on aspects that other books don't usually mention.
Covering all the key topics of the previous edition, including what a PhD is really about, how to do one well, how to decipher what your supervisor actually means by terms like 'good referencing' and 'clean research question', and how to design, report and defend your research,the authors continue to offer an accessible, down-to-earth, and insightful account of the whole PhD process. Their advice addresses how to avoid some of the pitfalls en route to a successful submission.
Updated throughout, the new edition includes new material on:
- Critical thinking
- Research skills
- The route to research independence
- Different models of study
About the Author
Dr Marian Petre is Professor of Computing at the Open University, UK, and a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award Holder. Her experience includes establishing a PhD programme, running doctoral consortia at international conferences, giving tutorials on research methods in the UK, US and Europe, and presenting research workshops for PhD students as well as supervising and examining doctoral students.
Dr Gordon Rugg is a former field archaeologist and English lecturer turned computer scientist, who is now head of the Knowledge Modelling Group at Keele University. He is the author of Using Statistics (Open University Press, 2007).
Gordon and Marian are also the authors of A Gentle Guide to Research Methods (Open University Press, 2006).
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excellent guide that really spells the PhD process out, Feb 24 2008
By textile fiend - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Unwritten Rules of PhD Research (Paperback)
I read five guides to getting a PhD and this was the one I found the most helpful. I thought it was much better then the Phillips & Pugh "How to get a PhD".All the books I read contained information on the actual academic process, and about the writing process, but where I thought this one was far superior was speaking about the informal areas of your research experience. It has excellent material about how to locate and build suitable people into different kinds of informal networks to help and support you. It has great infomation about the politics of academic life; how to survive and prosper if you are not naturally good at understanding (or playing in) the routes to power.
The book likens doing a PhD to an apprentice making a cabinet as their "master" piece. You need to display the right kinds of skills to demonstrate that you are an independant and sound researcher. This puts a slightly different spin to your work than just carrying out an independant research project. The book has lots and lots of useful short pointers giving the most helpful nuts and bolts of how to prove to your examiners that you know what you are doing, by explaining exactly what they are looking for in your thesis as that proof.
The book is packed full of pithy points for success; How much/often should I read? Exactly how many references do I need as a minimum? Are they going to be books or journal articles? How can I quickly tell a good journal article from a less-useful one? What's the best way to keep on top of an annotated bibliograhy? What does a successful thesis look like? If I'm trying to get a paper published, how many rejection letters can I expect to receive? If I want to lecture after I'm finished, how early in my PhD do I need to start teaching part-time?
Another part of the book that is different from the rest of the pack is the section on job hunting and interviews after you've completed the PhD. Because this is specifically aimed at an academic career it is more helpful than a generic book on interviewing.
The book also has really useful chapters covering the viva, conferences,and making presentations.
Throughout the book there are reminders about the goal - the PhD. The reader is continually nudged and steered back to the fact that the point of your whole research project is one particular kind of document, that needs to demonstrate particular skills. All the brilliance in the world won't help you if your thesis doesn't communicate it to the examiners.
I would strongly recommend this book to anyone starting, or still doing, their PhD.
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A lifesaver for clueless grad students, Oct 24 2011
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This is a very good book for the clueless grad students, as it teaches many intangible skills which may end up being as important as the research itself.Skills such as how to network and conduct yourself in a conference, how to plan the dissertation and even critique journals.
There are even sections on presentation skills and CV writing. It also gives tips so that we are not caught in the situation where, we have graduated but realize too late we need teaching experience to get a junior teaching position.
I would highly recommend this as it really helped me a lot in my beginning stages of graduate studies.
However, I have to be honest that, this book might be redundant for phd/graduate students who have great guidance and a wonderful learning culture in their institutions. But for those who find themselves in less favorable circumstances, such as myself, this book is almost a life-saver.
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Buy this book!!!, Sep 15 2010
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If you are doing a British PhD and if you have been out of academia for a while this book is a must. I agree with the comment that you should read it through at the beginning I did that and it gave me hope. Admittedly I have been moribund on a number of occasions (and according to the book there's alot more to come)but this has taken me away from the edge and made me smile. It's very accessible, practical and takes the serious edge off just enough to get you back on course. It is general though possibly not the best text for scientists or mathematicians but I think Arts and Humanities students will benefit from it the most. The Unwritten Rules of PhD Research (Open Up Study Skills)
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