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Graduate Students Library Guide

Books on grad school and being a successful graduate student

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Books and Resources on Being a Successful Graduate Student and Graduate School

Survival Kit for Doctoral Students and Their Supervisors by Lene Tanggaard; Charlotte Wegener
Call Number: LB2386 .T36 2016
Publication Date: 2016
Grad School Essentials by Zachary Shore
Call Number: LB2395 .S545 2016
Publication Date: 2016
Book Review.
GPS for Graduate School by Mark J. T. Smith (Editor)
Call Number: LB2371.4 .G67 2014
Publication Date: 2014
Listed by Choice Magazine.
Three Magic Letters by Michael T. Nettles; Catherine M. Millett
Call Number: LB2386 .N48 2006
Publication Date: 2006
Write It Up by Paul J. Silvia
Call Number: PN146 .S553 2015
Publication Date: 2014
Compleat Academic by John M. Darley (Editor); Mark P. Zanna (Editor); Henry L. Roediger (Editor)
Call Number: H62 .C584824 2004
Publication Date: 2003
Succeeding in Graduate School by Steven Walfish; Allen K. Hess
Call Number: Online
Publication Date: 2001
Guide to Supervising Non-native English Writers of Theses and Dissertations by John Bitchener
Publication Date: 2017
Action research dissertation : a guide for students and faculty / Kathryn Herr & Gary L. Anderson Professor Herr is in the Educational Foundations Department.
Call Number: H62 .H447 2015
Writing the Qualitative Dissertation by Judith M. Meloy
Call Number: Online
Publication Date: 2001
Graduate Student Guide by Carol A. Mullen
Call Number: LB2371.4 .M85 2006
Publication Date: 2006
Our Dissertations, Ourselves by Christine Sorrell Dinkins; Jeanne Merkle Sorrell
Call Number: LB2386 .D56 2014
Publication Date: 2014
Managing the Graduate School Experience by Mark H. Rossman; Kim Muchnick; Nicole Benak
Call Number: LB2371 .R67 2015
Publication Date: 2015
Getting to Grips with Doctoral Research by Margaret Walshaw
Call Number: LB2371 .W28 2012
Publication Date: 2012
Your Education Masters Companion by Jim McGrath; Anthony Coles
Call Number: LB1741.5 .M45 2015
ISBN: 9780415735759
Publication Date: 2015
Nurse's Step-By-Step Guide to Writing Your Dissertation or Capstone by Karen Roush
Call Number: Online
Publication Date: 2015
Exploring the Impact of the Dissertation in Practice by Valerie Anne Storey
Call Number: LB1742 .E89 2017
Publication Date: 2017
Writing the Winning Thesis or Dissertation by William A. (Arthur) Rouse; Randy L. Joyner; Allan A. Glatthorn
Call Number: LB2369 .G56 2013
Publication Date: 2012
Essentials of a Qualitative Doctorate. by by Immy. Holloway, Lorraine. Brown
Call Number: Online
Publication Date: 2016
Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations by Kate L. Turabian; Wayne C. Booth (Revised by); Gregory G. Colomb (Revised by); University of Chicago Press Staff (Revised by); Joseph M. Williams (Revised by)
Call Number: REF LB2369 .T8 2013
Publication Date: 2013
Writing Successful Science Proposals by Andrew J. Friedland; Carol L. Folt
Call Number: Online
Publication Date: 2009
Graduate Advisor Handbook by Bruce M. Shore
Call Number: LB2343 .S467 2014
Publication Date: 2014
Guide to the Successful Thesis and Dissertation by James E. Mauch
Call Number: LB2369 .M377 2003
Publication Date: 2003
Secrets for a Successful Dissertation by Jan Secrist; Debra J. Wright; Jacqueline Fitzpatrick
Call Number: LB2369 .F547 1998
Publication Date: 1998
Writing the Doctoral Dissertation by Gordon B. Davis; Detmar W. Straub
Call Number: LB2369 .D357 1997
Publication Date: 1997
Research Design and Proposal Writing in Spatial Science by Jay D. Gatrell; Gregory D. Bierly; Ryan R. Jensen
Call Number: Q180.55.P7 G28 2012
Publication Date: 2011
The Qualitative Dissertation by Maria Piantanida; Noreen Garman
Call Number: LB2369 .P48 1999
Publication Date: 1999
Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day by Joan Bolker
Call Number: LB2369 .B57 1998
Publication Date: 1998

Three Magic Letters by Michael T. Nettles; Catherine M. Millett
Call Number: LB2386 .N48 2006
Publication Date: 2006
Developing Generic Support for Doctoral Students by Susan Carter (Editor); Deborah Laurs (Editor)
Call Number: LB2386 .D48 2014
Publication Date: 2014
Idea of the PhD: the doctorate in the twenty-first-century imagination by Frances Jennifer Kelly
Call Number: LB2386 .K46 2017
Publication Date: 2017
Book Review.
PhD by Published Work by Susan Smith
Call Number: LB2386 .S65 2015
Publication Date: 2015
On Becoming a Scholar by Ann E. Austin (Foreword by); Susan K. Gardner (Editor); Pilar Mendoza (Editor)
Call Number: LB2386 .O5 2010
Publication Date: 2010
Book Review.
Book Review.
Book Review.
Leaving the Ivory Tower by Barbara E. Lovitts
Call Number: LB2386 .L68 2001
Publication Date: 2001
Reshaping Doctoral Education by Alison Lee (Editor); Susan Danby (Editor)
Call Number: LB2386 .R47 2012
Publication Date: 2012
Doctoral Education and the Faculty of the Future by Ronald G. Ehrenberg (Editor); Charlotte V. Kuh (Editor)
Call Number: LB2386 .D62 2009
Publication Date: 2008
Mama, PhD by Elrena Evans (Editor); Caroline Grant (Editor); Miriam Peskowitz (Foreword by)
Call Number: Online
Publication Date: 2008
Doctoral Study in Contemporary Higher Education by Lady Green; Howard Green; Stuart Powell
Call Number: LB2371.6.G7 G74 2005
Publication Date: 2005

Next Gen PhD by Melanie V. Sinche
Call Number: Q147 .S55 2016
Publication Date: 2016

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