Mastering Your PhD

Survival and Success in the Doctoral Years and Beyond

Patricia Gosling, Bart D. Noordam

166 pages, parution le 03/07/2006

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Résumé

"Mastering your PhD" 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. Every year, thousands of students around the world embark on the long and difficult journey toward a PhD. Some of these students will make it through their program with flying colors. Others will experience difficulty getting to the end: some will sink and some will manage to swim - barely. The doctoral years can be daunting. While mainly directed to PhD students in the sciences, the book's scope is broad enough to encompass the obstacles and hurdles that almost all PhD students face at some point in their doctoral training. Who should read this book? Students of the physical and life sciences, computer science, math, and medicine thinking about entering a PhD program, doctoral students at the beginning of their research and any graduate student who is feeling frustrated and stuck. It's never too early or too late!

"A must for any student in natural science who is doing or is considering doing a PhD. Also, I strongly recommend PhD supervisors to read this book - they will learn a lot."
Henrik Stapelfeldt, Professor of Chemistry, Arhus Denmark

"At last, a book about graduate study that paints the big picture and that recognizes PhD work as a real job involving many of the same relationship and business issues that will be important to students throughout their careers. Outstanding!"
Lou Bloomfield, Professor of Physics, University of Virginia, USA

Sommaire

Getting Started
Setting Goals and Objectives
How to Think Like a Scientist
Good Experimental Design
Charting Your Progress Month by Month
Dealing with Setbacks
The Art of Good Communication
The Art of Good Communication, Part 2
Searching the Scientific Literature
Your First International Conference
From Data to Manuscript: Writing Scientific Papers That Shine
Celebrate Your Success
How to Cope with Your Annual Evaluation
The Final Year: Countdown to Your Thesis Defence
Putting It All Together: a PhD...so What's Next?
Writing Your Doctoral Thesis with Style
The Final Act: Defending Your Thesis with Panache
Lessons Learned

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Springer
Auteur(s)	Patricia Gosling, Bart D. Noordam
Parution	03/07/2006
Nb. de pages	166
Format	15,5 x 23
Couverture	Relié
Poids	200g
Intérieur	Quadri
EAN13	9783540333876
ISBN13	978-3-540-33387-6