Writing a masters or doctoral thesis
- Get writing done!
- How not to get a PhD (from Estelle M Phillips and Derek S Pugh, How to Get a PhD, Open UP.)
- Mistakes and difficulties
- Overcome writer's block (from Rowena Murray, How to Write a Thesis, Open UP.)
- Plan a research project
- Postgraduate research criteria and what examiners look for
- Understand the words you use
- Writing a literature review
Tips and projects
- Enjoying Post-grad Research (pdf)
- Make sure you have thought of everything that matters
- Reporting on study leave
- Review a book: being fair to the author and to yourself
- Taming the Technology Tiger (pdf)
- What to include in the story of a church and More ideas for writing the story of a church
- Write a history of a church in ten steps
Primary sources
Books I have found helpful
Judith Bell, Doing your research project, Open University Press, 1993.
Wayne C Booth, , Gregory G Colomb and Jospeh M Williams, The Craft of Research, University of Chicago Press, 1995
Sara Delamont, Paul Atkinson and Odette Parry, Supervising the PhD. A guide to success, Open University Press, 1997. (good for students as well!)
Chris Hart, Doing a literature review : releasing the social science research imagination. London: Sage Publications, 1998.
Rowena Murray, How to write a thesis, Open University Press, 2002.
Estelle M. Phillips and D S Pugh, How to get a PhD, Open University Press (several editions)
Links
Marie C. Hoepfl, Choosing Qualitative Research: A Primer for Technology Education Researchers, Journal of Technology Education 9(1), 1997.
Doctorate, Wikipedia (note this article is flagged as needing cleanup, but it does provide information on different types of doctorates in various disciplines and in different countries).
John Roxborogh