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| Stephen Potter |
| Student Resources |
| Welcome to the Student
Resources for Doing Postgraduate Research |
| This book includes a considerable
amount of student resources within the text itself (e.g.
self-study activities and exercises with answers). The
main purpose of this section is to provide the weblinks
and other web resources that are referenced in the individual
chapters. These are grouped under each chapter, together
with any other materials that supplement the chapter’s
content. |
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| Chapter 1 - Introduction |
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| Chapter 2 - Getting
going |
| The Homeworking Checklist and DSE
Checklist documents are available here: |
| • Homeworking
Checklist |
| • Display
Screen Equipment Checklist |
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| Chapter 3 - Scoping
your research |
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| Chapter 4 - Logics
of enquiry |
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| Chapter 5 - Planning
and organising |
| Project Planning Schedules |
| • A
Word version of the Activity 5.2 Project Planning Schedule
is available
here |
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| Chapter 6 - Academic
writing |
| Mike Ashby’s ‘How
to Write a Paper’ provides excellent general
guidance on writing a research paper, particularly for
students for whom English is a second language. [Click
Here] |
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| Chapter 7 - Doing
a literature review |
| The BBC website contains good advice
about the trustworthiness of research findings posted
on websites. [Click
Here] |
| The BBC’s webwise site also
has general advice on the trustworthiness of websites
as a whole. [Click
Here] |
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| The following two papers show how
referencing errors can lead to misleading research conclusions: |
| Harzing, A.-W. (2002). ‘Are
our referencing errors undermining our scholarship and
credibility? The case of expatriate failure rates’.
Journal of Organizational Behavior, 23, 127-148.
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| Lance, C. E., Butts, M. M., and Michels,
L. C. (2006). ‘The sources of four commonly reported
cutoff criteria: What did they really say?’ Organizational
Research Methods, 9, 202-220. |
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| Chapter 8 - Responsibilities,
health and safety, intellectual property |
| • A
set of frequently asked questions and answers about research
students dealing with IPR issues is contained in this
PDF
file. |
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| Chapter 9 - Ethical
frameworks |
| • A
Word version of the grids for Activities 9.5, 9.6 and
9.7 are available
here |
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| Chapter 10 - Research
presentations |
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| Chapter 11 - The
examination process and the Viva |
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| Chapter 12 - Developing
your career |
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