Your Thesis: literature, ethics, methods and publishing

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A classic style guide, very valuable for non-native speakers. The third part (Principles of Composition) is particularly useful for expression.

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Useful earlier on, especially the strategy of free writing

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Useful when you actually write, how to structure thesis, how to sort arguments

This book has been recommended by the influential Thesis Whisperer blog for students of all disciplines, not just the humanities: see https://thesiswhisperer.com/2019/02/13/the-uneven-u/.

The Craft of Research has helped generations of researchers at every level learn how to conduct effective and meaningful research. Its chapters on finding and engaging sources now incorporate recent developments in library and Internet research, emphasizing new techniques made possible by online databases and search engines.

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Useful not only for supervisors or EAL students and has very good examples of chapters, very accessible.

entertaining read; demystifies writing process; proposes a plain & active
style, clear terms, rewrite and edit

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Bringing together student, academic, and institutional perspectives, this book casts light on the unique and challenging form of the doctoral thesis in the creative and performing arts, where the written text is combined with a creative/performed text, to present a unique contribution to research.

Despite their and other stakeholders consistent demand for excellence, doctoral programs have rarely, if ever, been assessed in terms of the quality of the dissertations departments produce. Yet dissertations provide the most powerful, objective measure of the success of a department s doctoral program. Indeed, assessment, when done properly, can help departments achieve excellence by providing insight into a program s strengths and weaknesses.This book and the groundbreaking study on which it is based is about making explicit to doctoral students the tacit rules for the assessment of the final of all final educational products the dissertation. The purpose of defining performance expectations is to make them more transparent to graduate students while they are in the researching and writing phases, and thus to help them achieve to higher levels of accomplishment. Lovitts proposes the use of rubrics to clarify performance expectations not to rate dissertations or individual components of dissertations to provide a summary score, but to facilitate formative assessment to support, not substitute for, the advising process. She provides the results of a study in which over 270 faculty from ten major disciplines spanning the sciences, social sciences, and humanities were asked to make explicit their implicit standards or criteria for evaluating dissertations. The book concludes with a summary of the practical and research implications for different stakeholders: faculty, departments, universities, disciplinary associations, accrediting organizations, and doctoral students themselves.The methods described can easily be adapted for the formative assessment of capstone courses, senior and master s theses, comprehensive exams, papers, and journal articles."