The Research Student's Guide to Success

by Pat Cryer (Author)

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  2000

  $3.25

  ...The first edition of Professor Cryer's book was absolutely outstanding, in four main respects. First, it is comprehensive in its scope, covering everything from applying to undertaking a research degree. Second, it is applicable to PhDs across the board. Third, the book is exceptionally well written and highly readable. Finally, at each stage Pat Cryer has included questions and exercises to enable readers to reflect on their practice, check out whether they are on track and, if not, discover how they might return themselves to it. Overall, Pat Cryer has made a major contribution to the field and produced a quite exceptional book. It ought to be compulsory reading for intending or actual postgraduates and for academic staff teaching research training programmes. - Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education . ...the Research Student's Guide to Success certainly does what it promises on the cover and every research student should find it a very valuable companion. - Journal of Graduate Education . The second edition of this Open University set book is, like the first edition, for postgraduate research students wherever the language of instruction is English. Irrespective of their field of study, it will make their research programmes and day-to-day lives more productive and enjoyable. The book is easy to dip into and is in conversational style. Interest and realism are added through anecdotes, extracts from the literature and pithy quotations. The second edition is a complete revision of the original. New emphases include: the needs of the growing number of part time postgraduates; a wider understanding of the term 'research student' to embrace all postgraduate students undertaking research, whether for traditional PhDs and MPhils or within programmes such as professional doctorates, 'taught' masters degrees, diplomas and certificates; information technology as a day-to-day tool. There are also two new chapters: one on options for postgraduate study and research and the other on skills development and employment issues. There is a foreword by Professor Sir Martin Harris, Chair of the National UK Review of Postgraduate Education.

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  Paperback
  1996

  $3.25

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  Paperback
  2006

  $48.58

  A must read for all research students!

  The core material in Professor Cryer's previous editions is classic. I welcome this new edition setting it into current contexts. - PhD supervisor

  When I was doing my own PhD, Pat Cryer's book was my constant reference companion. Now I am recommending her latest edition to my own students. - PhD supervisor

  Insightful, wide-ranging and accessible, this is an invaluable tool for postgraduate research students and for students at all levels working on research projects, irrespective of their field of study.

  This edition has been thoroughly revised to accommodate the changes in postgraduate education over recent years. Additional material and new emphases take into account:

  • the QAA Code of Practice for Postgraduate Research Programmes
  • recommendations of the Roberts Review
  • the needs of the growing number of `overseas' research students
  • employment issues (including undergraduate teaching)
  • the Internet as a resource for research.

  There are new chapters on:

  • developing the research proposal
  • succeeding as an `overseas' research student
  • ethics in research
  • personal development planning (PDP)