The student's research companion : the purpose-driven journey of scientific entrepreneurs /
"Many students (and also supervisors) struggle with their final academic projects (and their supervisions). This struggle has taken away from the great potential of a learning experience the thesis, dissertation, or capstone project has to offer. We invite our readers to learn and reflect our t...
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
[2023]
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Table of Contents:
- Approach
- Skills and the will to grow
- Relevance follows audience
- Rigour suggests approach
- Deduce the research design
- Purposeful scientific entrepreneur
- Renewable research energy
- Why even bother?
- Preparation determines motivation
- A peer called supervisor
- Countless shades of supervision
- Begin
- Conduct a project
- Follow one trajectory
- Try not to build roof-down
- Build well-dimensioned bridges
- Impression management
- Maturing your mind
- Comparing with others
- A researcher's humility
- Theory is there to help
- Castle under siege
- Conduct
- Growing into an expert
- Help others understand you
- Strange birds
- Writing as modern architecture
- A magnetic introduction
- A contextualising theory chapter
- An instructive methodology chapter
- A resolving findings chapter
- A progressive discussion
- A consolidating conclusion
- Complete
- Revise frequently
- Core motivator, key critic
- Frustration is a fuzzy teacher
- Relaxation as a research methodology
- Fear of writing
- Mitigating mental overload
- Write like a journey
- Be kind to yourself
- Necessity of ownership
- Throwing off a weight
- Continue afterwards
- Take in your accomplishment
- Feedback eats grades for breakfast
- Your degree is a trusted symbol
- Do good for yourself and others
- Keep in touch
- Career serendipity
- Never consider yourself unfree
- Fortify your academic skills
- Grow forward
- Share the fire.