Stepping Stones To Achieving Your Doctorate By Focusing On Your Viva From The Start

Download or read book Stepping Stones To Achieving Your Doctorate: By Focusing On Your Viva From The Start written by Trafford, Vernon and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title focuses specifically on how doctoral candidates can raise levels of thinking about their topic, their research process and their contributions to knowledge. It emphasises the nature of conceptualisation sought by examiners within theses.

Download or read book How to Survive Your Viva: Defending a Thesis in an Oral Examination written by Rowena Murray and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2015-05-16 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ***** Amazon reviews for the second edition: "Again, Rowena Murray nails it! A perfectly balanced guide outlining truly useful tips to getting through your viva from someone who knows." "This is an excellent book. I found the book helpful in giving me a good understanding of what to expect, how to start with focusing on the specific areas suggested and how to develop my own style in marking up my thesis ... It certainly reduced my nerves going in knowing I had suggested areas fully prepared. A must have for anyone doing a viva!" How to Survive Your Viva 3e is a concise, practical introduction that equips students with the skills they need to defend their thesis or dissertation. The oral examination requires the highest standard of communication skills. The book ensures you are ready for what can be a complex and intimidating experience, telling you what to expect, how to practise and prepare, what questions you might be asked and how to ensure your responses support your thesis. Written in an accessible style, this book draws on the tried and trusted material and activities created for viva preparation workshops run by the author over many years. Thoroughly updated but retaining its well-loved style, this 3rd edition provides: Planning tools for you to employ, plus summaries at the start of each chapter to help you prepare Checklists of how to do well in your oral examination, with action points to clarify what you should do next Example questions with samples of strong and weak answers, plus narratives of students’ real viva experiences More on research into viva questions and different types of questions you may be asked, including specialist ones in your discipline Advice on condensing your rationale, framework, methods and findings into a short verbal statement New material on maintaining positive body language, posture and eye contact for an assertive and calm viva The third edition is the essential handbook for all students and researchers anticipating an undergraduate, Masters or doctoral examination. It is also an invaluable reference for supervisors, tutors and examiners.

Download or read book How To Survive Your Viva: Defending A Thesis In An Oral Examination written by Murray, Rowena and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A handbook to help students prepare for vivas. It presents real examples of questions and strategies for answering them; case studies of where vivas can go right or wrong; planning tools and a preparation framework; and verbal strategies to do justice to the thesis.

Download or read book Completing Your EdD written by Iona Burnell Reilly and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-14 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an essential text for students pursuing the Doctor of Education programme (EdD). Written by EdD teachers and course leaders, it covers essential elements of the EdD including reading and writing at doctoral level, planning and executing research, and much more, and will accompany students as they successfully progress through their EdD.

Download or read book The Handbook of Counselling Psychology written by Barbara Douglas and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2016-02-12 with total page 697 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fourth edition provides the most comprehensive guide to the field of counselling psychology, exploring a range of theories and philosophical underpinnings, practice approaches and contexts, and professional issues. It has been updated to reflect current issues and debates and to map onto the training standards, and offers the ultimate companion for your journey through counselling psychology training and into the workplace. New to the fourth edition: Chapters on: Person-Centred Therapy; Mindfulness; Neuroscience; Engaging with and Carrying out Research; Reflective Practice; International Dimensions; and Ecopsychology A companion website offering hours of video and audio, including conversations with counselling psychology practitioners and trainees, and articles, exercises and case studies Other new features include: Further Reading, ‘Day in the Life of’ dialogues with practitioners; Reflective Exercises, and Discussion Points, and new case studies. Special attention has been paid to the topic of research, both as a theme throughout the book, and through four new chapters covering the use, carry out and publication of research at different stages of training and practice. The handbook is the essential textbook for students and practitioners in the field of counselling psychology and allied health professions, at all stages of their career and across a range of settings, both in the UK and internationally.

Download or read book The Good Supervisor written by Gina Wisker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-07-16 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This engaging book outlines effective strategies for supervising students on a wide variety of research projects, whether at undergraduate or postgraduate level. It covers each stage of the research journey and provides guidance on working with students to define research topics, select appropriate methodologies, write up theses and prepare for the viva. It also supports supervisors in establishing and maintaining good supervisory practices, and shows how supervisors can help students to help themselves. This will be essential reading for supervisors of undergraduate or postgraduate research projects, dissertations and theses. It is also an ideal resource for student researchers looking to get the most out of their relationship with their supervisor. New to this Edition: - New content on cross-cultural supervision, online distance supervision and sustaining research communities and networks

Download or read book Celebrating Diversity in Becoming an Educational Researcher written by Debra McGregor and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2024-11-13 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a collection of 15 reflective biographical accounts of teachers, scientists, a childhood author, a philosopher, a dancer and other academics' journeys to becoming educational researchers. The personal and professional stories highlight for any would-be doctoral student, researcher or educationalist the challenges and problem resolutions to becoming a researcher. The reflective aspects of the narrated stories also include ‘what I wish I knew before I embarked’ upon the researcher journey. These wise words, drawing on lived-experiences, are useful for educational researchers, educational policymakers drawing on research and also those responsible for designing doctoral programmes. The penultimate chapter also introduces the passionate voices of the authors that convey the true reality of learning as they develop their identities, appropriate new forms of knowledge, knowing and understandings. In addition to this, the use of metaphors brings alive each authors’ experiences to demonstrate how this journey is profoundly transformational for everyone!