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Planning Your Postgraduate Research

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Planning Your Postgraduate Research by Margaret Walshaw is a comprehensive and accessible guide designed to support postgraduate researchers at the beginning of their projects. It covers essential stages such as selecting a research topic, developing research questions, evaluating relevant literature, writing literature reviews, choosing methodologies, and crafting research proposals. Ideal for both PhD and Master's students, this book equips readers with practical skills to initiate and manage their research effectively.
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This book is suitable for postgraduate students undertaking Master’s or PhD research projects, as well as educators and supervisors seeking a clear resource to support early-stage research planning.

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Each chapter covers a key stage in the process, from selecting an appropriate research topic and developing a working research question through to assimilating and evaluating relevant literature. It then guides researchers through the process of writing a literature review, selecting a research methodology and creating a research proposal.

Planning Your Postgraduate Research provides readers with constructive and helpful guidance on the crucial early stages of undertaking research. Margaret Walshaw's book hits all the right notes in covering how to select a question, conduct a literature review, choose a research methodology, and provides useful guidance on how to manage one's time effectively.' - Kristen Williams, Clark University, USA 'A most welcome book, which explores and explains all of the different elements, theoretical and empirical, academic and personal, that are necessary for the successful completion of postgraduate research.' - Suzanne McDonald-Walker, Northampton University, UK

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This comprehensive and easy-to-use book supports postgraduate researchers in the early stages of their project. Written in an engaging and accessible style, it helps readers to clarify what they want to research and how to conduct that research.

Each chapter covers a key stage in the process, from selecting an appropriate research topic and developing a working research question through to assimilating and evaluating relevant literature. It then guides researchers through the process of writing a literature review, selecting a research methodology, and creating a research proposal.

Planning Your Postgraduate Research is an invaluable guide that is ideal for both PhD and Masters students. It will equip them with the skills needed to get their research project underway.

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  • Planning Your Postgraduate Research
    This comprehensive and easy-to-use book supports postgraduate researchers in the early stages of their project. Written in an engaging and accessible style, it helps readers to clarify what they want to research and how to conduct that research. Each chapter covers a key stage in the process, from selecting an appropriate research topic and developing a working research question through...
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Planning Your Postgraduate Research is praised for its constructive and helpful advice on the crucial early stages of research. Experts highlight Walshaw’s clear guidance on selecting questions, conducting literature reviews, choosing methodologies, and managing time efficiently. The book is considered a comprehensive resource that balances theoretical, empirical, academic, and personal elements necessary for successful postgraduate study.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781137427342

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 21 April 2015

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Red Globe Press

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 138.0mm

Height: 216.0mm

Weight: 181g

Pages: 144

About the Author

Margaret Walshaw is Coordinator of the Professional Doctoral programme and Co-Director of the Centre for Research in Mathematics Education at Massey University, New Zealand. She is the author of Getting to Grips with Doctoral Research.

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