Stepping Stones to Achieving your Doctorate: Focusing on Your Viva from the Start (Open Up Study Skills)

What criteria are used to assess the scholarly merit of a thesis? What is the level of conceptualization that is expected in doctoral theses? How can you prepare to defend your thesis? What is the most effective route to achieving your doctorate? The starting point to achieving your doctorate is to appreciate how your thesis will be examined. The criteria that examiners use the questions they ask in vivas and their reports provide templates against which theses are judged. So why not start from this endpoint as you plan undertake write and defend your research? This book focuses specifically on how you as a doctoral candidate can raise your level of thinking about your chosen topic. Doing so will improve the quality of your research and ultimately contribute to knowledge. It also explores the nature of conceptualization which is sought by examiners in theses. As a candidate the book provides those essential characteristics of doctorateness

Series: Open Up Study Skills

Paperback: 264 pages

Publisher: Open University Press; 1 edition (October 1 2008)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0335225438

ISBN-13: 978-0335225439

Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 0.6 x 9.1 inches

Shipping Weight: 1 pounds