The following paper is a favourite of ANU Phd students -
'It’s a PhD, not a Nobel Prize’: how experienced examiners assess research
theses
By GERRY MULLINS (Adelaide Graduate Centre, Adelaide University, Australia)
& MARGARET KILEY (Centre for the Enhancement of Learning, Teaching and
Scholarship, University of Canberra, Australia)
http://www.studentservices.uwa.edu.au/__data/page/65297/Its_a_PhD_not_a_Nobel_Prize.pdf
Best wishes
v.
On 18 October 2012 04:08, Ranulph Glanville <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Dear List Members
>
> We are setting up a 3 year rolling seminar program to run alongside
> and enhance our doctoral program in Innovation Design Engineering at
> London's Royal College of Art, and would like to invite your help.
>
> Outline
>
> We plan 6 seminars per year. One is left open, for response to
> student requests. The one at the start of each year is repeated: it's
> the getting back together and meeting the new candidates session.
> That leaves 4 other seminars per year.
>
> We will be building a reading/pre-study list for these seminars. Like
> each of us, our views, and consequently what each of us values, is
> different to the views of others. We are not interested to promote a
> particular view, but rather a catholic collection of differing views
> for the students to discuss, under each seminar heading. One point of
> the seminars is to develop the ability to discuss and argue properly.
>
> Help
>
> We would like to invite your help in gradually creating this reading
> list. About a month before each seminar we will invite list members
> to suggest good readings. We are looking for a liberal interpretation
> of the theme so we would like to include contextual material as well.
>
> The forthcoming seminar has 2 topics:
>
> Writing a thesis (how to do it)
> What constitutes and argument, and how to make one
>
> There are 3 restrictions we wish to propose for suggestions:
>
> 1) In order that students may read the material, items should not be
> too long. We would like to place a length guide of up to about 5000
> words.
>
> 2) Items should be available online without charge; or we invite you
> to send a copy in pdf format. In either case, please send a url for
> web access and referencing.
>
> 3) We ask for not more than 1 suggested item per correspondent per
> topic. We want to get a wide range, and to get really personally
> valued suggestions (the choice of which is, in a sense, a portrait of
> you). We don't want to overload the students. Accordingly, we will
> not consider messages suggesting more than 2 papers per topic.
> Multiple messages from the same correspondent will be treated as one.
> We notice a tendency on this list to make enormous and unfocussed
> suggestions which seem to us to be counter-productive.
>
> We hope very much that members of this list will feel enabled to help
> and thank you in advance for any help you offer us.
>
> Yours sincerely,
>
> Ranulph Glanville
>
>
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