How to finish your PhD
Matt Schonlau's Great Tips - the most detailed, honest and useful advice you can ever find on
how to finish your PhD, written by
Matt Schonlau; he provides you with a concise but thorough insight into all major aspects of doing and finishing your PhD. What you have to keep in mind doing a PhD: how to focus on your goals for a longer time, how to plan your life in accordance with your research and how not to lose track in order to finish your PhD within a reasonable timeframe. (2003)
Start with this one!
The seven secrets of highly successful PhD students -
The seven secrets of highly successful PhD students gives you short but good advice on how to master your PhD, keeping just a few important points in mind. It says that researchers who know and make use of these seven secrets
get through their doctorate more quickly, and just as importantly are happier, according to the Staff Development and Training Unit, Flinders University, Australia (2007)
Doing a PhD in the Social Sciences: Myths, Tips and Strategies - some great tips on how to do a PhD, written by
Dr Kevin Morrell, Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management & Organisational Behaviour. (2009)
Mastering Your Ph.D.: Countdown to Your Thesis Defence -
Mastering Your Ph.D.: Countdown to Your Thesis Defence; a concise article on
how to finish graduate school; by Bart Noordam, Patricia Gosling, Authors of
Mastering Your PhD: Survival and Success in the Doctoral Years and Beyond
(2007)
So long, and thanks for the PhD! - "Everything I wanted to know about C.S. graduate school at the beginning but didn't learn until later"; a somewhat lengthy but
definitely useful and informative personal story told by
Ronald T. Azuma, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2003).
Take your time and read this one, too!
Writing Tips for PhD students
Writing Tips for PhD Students (PDF) - if you are a PhD student, you can't miss this paper! It provides you with some of the
best writing tips for PhD students available online, written by
John H. Cochrane, University of Chicago (2005)
Ph.D. Thesis Research: Where do I Start? (PDF) -
Ph.D. Thesis Research: Where do I Start? Great advice from finding the right research topic to research strategies and writing your thesis; by
Don Davis, Columbia University (2001)
General tips for starting, doing and finishing a PhD
What They Don't Teach You in Graduate School - a well-written article with useful PhD tips (offering rules for finishing up that dissertation and finding a first job); by
David E. Drew and
Paul Gray, Professors of education and information science at Claremont Graduate University (2005)
Observations of a PhD student - a thorough collection of a PhD student's personal experience by
Steven Halim, National University of Singapore (2008)
Useful tips from Holland - some general information and basic tips for PhD students, written by PhD students from the Utrecht University, Holland, containing questions they have asked themselves during their research, questions about how to get it started and how to get it finished, questions that they have never dared to ask...
Top 10 Tips - Check out the
Top 10 PhD Tips by
Rick Friedman, PhD Connect Blog (2010)
How to start your research career
How do I Start Building a Research Career? (for PhD Students) -
How do I Start Building a Research Career? (for PhD Students) is some great, funny & handful advice by
Indranil Gupta Asst. Prof. at Dept of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He tells you about how (not) to start your research career during and after your PhD studies.
Definitely worth reading!
PhD Comics
PhD Comics - if you haven't subscribed to the famous PhD Comics via RSS yet, do it now! You won’t regret it : - )
Dissertation Coaching Tips
The Dissertation Doctor - If you face difficulties writing your dissertation, you might need a professional
dissertation coach.
Check out
DissertationDoctor.com, a useful dissertation coaching website run by California-based Dissertation Coach
Dr. Sally Jensen
Useful books with PhD tips
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The PhD Application Handbook - The PhD Application Handbook by Peter Bentley is a comprehensive handbook for people wishing to apply for a PhD. It provides a step-by-step guide, explaining: what a PhD is; how to apply for your PhD; and how to find the right university, supervisor and project. It also provides detailed information about funding, eligibility, deadlines for different awards, and which funding is best for which student. Examples of research proposals, application forms and interview technique are given, helping you to secure your PhD place with the minimum of problems. Paperback: 192 pages; Publisher: Open University Press (2006) |
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The Unwritten Rules of PhD Research (Study Skills)
This book covers all the aspects you wish someone had told you before you started your PhD and provides you with useful tips on how to come through your PhD with a happy ending; written by Gordon Rugg and Marian Petre;
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Mastering Your PhD: Survival and Success in the Doctoral Years and Beyond - Mastering Your PhD: Survival and Success in the Doctoral Years and Beyond by Patricia A. Gosling and Bart D. Noordam guides students thinking about entering a PhD program, doctoral students at the beginning of their research and graduate student feeling stuck or frustrated.
Paperback: 156 pages; Publisher: Springer (2006)
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