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The book addresses the problems that most doctoral researchers experience during their candidature - being unclear about their contribution, feeling lost in the literature, feeling like an imposter, not knowing how to write with authority, wanting to edit rather than revise. Each chapter addresses a problem and offers strategies designed to address the real issue.

This is a user-friendly, easy to dip into guide for construction students. It offers practical advice, best practices, and illustrates with numerous examples.

This book takes an integrated, down-to-earth approach to guide readers step-by-step towards productive success. Early chapters frame the tasks ahead and show how to get started. From there, it provides practical advice and illustrations that take one through all elements of thesis writing.

This book offers insight regarding the entire research process, from organizing your literature and materials to preparing for defense. You will gain a strong understanding of the difference between a thesis and a dissertation, and grasp the components expected of your work.

This guide reveals the distinct set of skills, conventions, and methods of essay and dissertation writing. Taking students through the various stages of writing, from planning to final submission, it offers specific guidelines and a lively, detailed commentary on actual examples of student work at each stage.

This short book from an international, best-selling author offers a practical guide to conceiving, researching and writing a business or management dissertation. Topics covered include collecting and measuring data, using business statistics, planning research projects and the real mechanics of writing a dissertation.

This book is a lively guide to academic writing. The author showcases a range of scholars from the sciences, humanities, and social sciences who write with vividness and panache. Individual chapters take up specific elements of style, such as titles and headings, chapter openings, and structure, and close with examples of transferable techniques that any writer can master.

This book offers a clear account of how to produce, finish, and submit a successful thesis. The authors draw on their experience as writing coaches to provide ways of thinking, and tools for one to feel more in control of the practices of writing about research.

This guide helps you determine their research topic, choose appropriate methods, turn a hypothesis into a study, complete a literature review, write and defend a proposal, collect and analyze data, write up the study, and ultimately defend your dissertation. Building on years of experience with their own doctoral students, the authors have developed an extremely comprehensive, yet easy-to-use tool.