N.-Y.: McGraw-Hill/Open University Press, 2010. - 272p.
This title, from Gordon Rugg and Marian Petre, discusses the unwritten rules of the academic world, the things people forget to tell you about doing a doctorate.
So you want to do a PhD?
The many shapes of the PhD
The route to research independence
Supervision
Networks
Reading
Paper types
Research design
Critical thinking
Writing
Writing structure and style
The process of writing
Presentations
Conferences
The viva
Sabotage and salvation
What next?
Closing thoughts.