介绍
【简介】
This lively, rigorous and research-informed book is essential reading on any postgraduate course. Providing you with invaluable guidance on how to plan and conduct your research, it helps keep your momentum going, shows how you can enjoy the research process itself and ultimately ensures you are able to produce a high quality dissertation or thesis. Revised and updated throughout, the second edition includes additional material on methodology and theorising, as well as content on the skills needed to succeed after your study is completed.
The Postgraduate Research Handbook:
·contains both active and reflective tasks to guide you through the stages of your research project, from choosing a university to the conception of the project, carrying out the research, assessing the results and finally writing up your findings
·addresses the key area of developing appropriate methodology and methods offers supportive advice in social and cultural issues such as working with your supervisor and peers
·examines what to do after you have finished or submitted your project, including viva preparation, giving presentations, writing for publication and presenting yourself well for future posts
Clear and accessible in its approach the book promises an indispensable introduction to successful and effective research, and makes certain you achieve optimum results on your MA, MPhiL, EdD or PhD course.
GINA WISKER is Head of the Centre for Learning and Teaching at the University of Brighton. She is the co-editor and committee chair of the SEDA journal Innovations in Education and Teaching International and is the author of The Good Supervisor.
【出版说明】
外教社秉承致力学术创新、促进学术繁荣的宗旨，以服务教学科研、人才培养、文化传承与传播为己任，以高品质的学术出版来引领外语学科建设与发展，为我国外语教学和科研提供了丰富的学术资源。
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为进一步解决国内硕士、博士研究生在撰写科研论文和掌握科研方法方面所面临的各种问题和困惑，外教社推出‘学术研究方法指导手册”。本套手册融理论和实践为一体，阐释系统、深入，既囊括了对于论文撰写结构与步骤上所有要素的介绍和分析，又涉及有关项目调研、选题论证、时间管理、成果出版、自我评价等方法上的科学指导，为论文撰写规范化提供指南，并对培养研究能力、开辟研究领域和拓展研究思路给予启示。
本套手册对于广大硕士、博士研究生的论文撰写有很好的指导作用，尤其是对人文学科和社会科学领域的硕士、博士研究生的科研工作有非常强的针对性和实用性，对于硕士、博士研究生的学科导师也具有较强的借鉴意义和参考价值。
目录
【目录】
List of Figures and Tables
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction
What the book does not do
What the book does and how it is structured
PART ONE STARTING RESEARCH
2 Starting Your Postgraduate Research
Why do an MA, MPhil, PhD or other Doctorate?
Planning, key issues and suggestions
Starting to think about developing a hypothesis and/or
research questions
3 Choosing the Right Research Degree
Types of degree
Varieties of research degree
Choosing your university and supervisor
4 Choosing Your Supervisor(s)
Introduction
Choosing your supervisor, and internal regulations
Working with your supervisors: initial contracts and contacts
Managing your supervisor
Things to ask/not to ask your supervisor(s)
Planning to get the most from your supervisor
What research students can expect of supervisors – a brief
summary
Stages of supervisions – what you might expect at different
stages
Planning work and supervisions
5 Research Questions and Hypotheses
Developing research questions or hypotheses for research
proposals and the research
The research process
Stating your title
Research questions
Key stages – developing a hypothesis or research questions
‘Operationalising a concept
Boundaries and gaps
What kind of research is yours going to be?
Stages of asking the research question
6 Research Methodologies
Choosing research methodologies
Methodology
Research approaches
Methodology, worldview, methods, data and research
Using qualitative and quantitative research methods together
7 Conceptual Frameworks
Research paradigms and perspectives
Some examples of areas
8 Ethics and Confidentiality
Typical procedures and their history
9 Writing a Research Proposal
What do you want to research? How you can draw up a good proposal
PART TWO GETTING GOING – SUPERVISORS, TIME AND COMMUNITY
10 Managing Your Supervisor(s)
Planning work and supervisions
Learning contracts
11 Managing the Balancing Act
Balancing what?
Varieties of roles and activities – an audit
What kind of balancing act suits you?
12 Managing Your Time and Tasks
Good planning: long-, medium- and short-term management
of time
Overall planning and the cycle of research
13 Learning as a Research Student – Learning Approaches,
Styles and Pitfalls
Learning styles: deep, surface and strategic learning
Disciplines
What kind of learner are you?
14 Developing a Supportive Research Culture Locally and at
a Distance
Group/project team supervisions
Self-managed groups and networks
Peer pairing
Peer support systems over a distance
Using electronic and video links to support research students
in their work
Different modes of contact explored
Other peer-support systems – establishing a research culture
PART THREE CARRYING OUT THE RESEARCH AND STARTING
TO WRITE
15 Carrying out a Literature Review – Developing the
Theoretical Perspectives Chapter
A literature review/theoretical perspectives chapter
International students – some particular issues
Carrying out the literature review
Writing the theoretical perspectives chapter
16 Methods in Brief
Quantitative research methods – designing and using
questionnaires
Qualitative research methods – interviews, focus groups and
observation
Case study 1
Case study 2
17 Using Grounded Theory, Case Studies, Journals and
Synectics
Grounded theory
Case studies
Case study 1
Case study 2
Journals
Synectics
18 Action Research and Practitioner-based Research
Benefits of practitioner-based research
Possible pitfalls or problems
Action research
Phenomenography
19 Problem-based or Enquiry-based Research and Problem
Solving
Stages of problem-based or enquiry-based research
Case study
20 Research Methods for the Arts and Humanities
The documenting, critiquing and creative continuum
The form and shape of arts and humanities theses
Case study 1
Case study 2
Researching your own creative work/using the creative in
your research work
PART FOUR SUPPORT, PROGRESS, ANALYSIS, WRITING UP, THE
VIVA, PRESENTATIONS AND AFTERWARDS
21 Being Organised, Keeping Records, Writing Up, Stage-by-
Stage
Time and task plan – key stages and obvious potentially
difficult moments
22 Writing the Thesis or Dissertation
Developing the framework of different chapters
The shape of the thesis as it develops
Models
Elements of the structure of the thesis explained – and
variants discussed
23 Overcoming Writing Blocks and Learning from Feedback
Writing
Analysis of narratives, interviews, interactions, cases
Some ideas about the writing habit
Developing writing
24 Analysing Data and Thinking about Findings
Making sense of your data – interpretation and findings
Managing data, both quantitative and qualitative
Annotating
Summarising and generalising
Qualitative data activity
Documentary analysis
Findings
25 Learning from Feedback
Working with supervisor and other feedback
26 Writing Transfer Documents and Progress Reports for
MPhil, EdD and PhD Theses
Open University (OU) EdD
Transfer to a PhD
MPhil, PhD and EdD – scope and differences
Presentation issues to bear in mind as you carry on with
your work
27 Writing Up: Definitions and Qualities of a Good MA,
MPhil, EdD and PhD Thesis
The Masters dissertation or thesis
The EdD
Definitions of a good dissertation or thesis
Positive features in a successful MPhil and PhD
Writing up
28 Preparing Your Thesis and Dissertation – Coherence,
Conclusions and Conceptual Level Work
The proposal – revisited
29 Preparing for and Undertaking Your Viva
Being prepared
Postgraduate viva
Generic questions
Stress management
The viva voce – a brief outline
30 Dealing with Corrections – Life after the Viva . . .
What next?
Celebrate
31 Presentations, Conferences and Publishing
Plan
Prepare
Practise
Presentation
Publications
32 Life After the Research
Is there life after the research?
Bibliography
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