文档介绍：Mastering Your PhD
Second Edition
Patricia Gosling · Bart Noordam
Mastering Your PhD
Survival and ess in the
Doctoral Years and Beyond
Second Edition
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Dr. Patricia Gosling Prof. Dr. Bart Noordam
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Authors’ Note
It’s been four years since the 2006 publication of the first edition
of ‘Mastering Your PhD: Survival and ess in the Doctoral
Years and Beyond’. In the meantime we’ve written quite a bit
of new material. Some of it appeared as a monthly column on
the website, and some of it consists of addi-
tional tips and advice we thought would be of value to fledgling
PhD students and those who are further al