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The Graduate Student's Backpack
It's What You Need on the Research Path
Ronald D. Taskey (Edited by), RD Taskey (Author)
9780891183341, Wiley
Hardback, published 18 June 2012
208 pages
1 x 1 x 1 cm, 0.454 kg
The new graduate student must select a graduate committee, plan course work, find an original research topic, and design a research plan that ultimately leads to a defensible thesis or series of publishable research articles. Whether a graduate student plans a research career or not, he or she typically must complete an original, independent, analytical study, even though few beginning students know how or where to begin. A little help would be good, right? This process-oriented manual holds the fundamentals students in the sciences need to trek the graduate school path—it is their “backpack.” Open it and see what it can do for you.
Foreword vii PREFACE ix Chapter 1 First, You Need Advisors—and They Need Students 4 Next, You Need a Research Topic and a Strategy 13 Some Personal and Practical Points 17 Major Hurdles: Preliminary Exams and Final Defense 32 Chapter 2 What Is a Thesis and What Is Research? 39 A Brief History of Scientific Research Philosophy 41 Definition Dualities: Thought Tools for Research and Problem Solving 48 Definition Dualities: First Principles 49 Definition Dualities: Design 67 Definition Dualities: Outcome 75 A Triad: The Testable, the Trusted, and the True 81 Chapter 3 The Research Plan Explained 97 Research Grant Proposals 125 Chapter 4 Reading and Evaluating Scientific Reports 131 Hints for Scientific Writing 134 Free Writing 141 Preparing a Literature Review 143 Writing for Scientific Publication 154 The Research Notebook 160 Your Personal Diary 163 Free-Writing Notebook 163 Chapter 6 Oral Presentations 167 Poster Presentations 178 Résumés or Curricula Vitae and Cover Letters 180 Chapter 7 References 189 Index 193
The Beginning 1
On Definitions and Dualities 37
Research Planning 91
Reading and Writing 129
Chapter 5
Keeping Track of Things 159
Presenting Your Work and Yourself 165
When It’s All Over 185
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