Mastering Your PhD Survival and Success in the Doctoral Years and Be
"Mastering your PhD" helps guide PhD students through their graduate student days. Filled with practical advice on getting started, communicating with your supervisor, staying the course, and planning for the future, this book is a handy guide for graduat
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Mastering Your PhD
Patricia Gosling Bart Noordam
Mastering Your PhD Survival and Success in the Doctoral Years and Beyond
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Dr. Patricia Gosling European Neuromuscular Centre Baarn The Netherlands e-mail: [email protected] Prof. Dr. Bart Noordam University of Amsterdam Van der Waals–Zeeman Institute Amsterdam The Netherlands e-mail: [email protected]
Library of Congress Control Number: 2006926427 ISBN-10 3-540-33387-8 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York ISBN-13 978-3-540-33387-6 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York
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Preface
Why read a book about getting a PhD? As a general rule, PhD students and their supervisors tend to focus primarily, or even exclusively, on the content of the research that will go into the doctoral thesis. Other issues are often taken for granted: how to organize your work, give a presentation, work in a team, cope with your supervisor, and how to effectively manage your time. When asked, former PhD students usually claim that the general experience of being a graduate student, which includes learning how to solve complex problems and work well with others, was of greater value to their careers than the actual topic of their thesis. The goal of this book is to help PhD students master some of the skills that have been proven effective in the world outside of academia, and to help PhD students gain mastery over the non-scientific aspects of getting a PhD. Hopefully, this book will help graduate students more fully enjoy their doctoral years, as well as provide some much-needed support as they prepare for their post-PhD careers.
Sink or swim After hearing about this project, one professor had this to say: ‘This book should not be published. Obtaining a PhD is like swimming across a big lake. Some students can’t swim, so they will sink. That is the way the academic system selects those who will win. By providing st
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