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NEW EDITION WITH AI SMARTPROMPTS: REFLECTIVE QUESTIONS, ASSOCIATED AI PROMPTS TRAINED ON THIS BOOK (SEE APPENDICES). This book addresses all the main issues faced by doctoral researchers in the social sciences. It blends the individual chapters with multimedia online resources, tailored to enhance the text and develop the reader's reflection. Videos, audio files, screencasts, interactive questions and other techniques are deployed to deepen understanding. Carefully engineered prompts for artificial intelligence platforms such as ChatGPT give you feedback on their own drafts. Your draft research questions, abstracts, titles, claims for significance and so on are improved by interaction with generative AI and subsequent reflection and redrafting. Table of Contents 1. About the blended series of books for doctoral researchers 2. From inspiration to workable project 3. Asking good research questions 4. Questions examiners ask about your research design 5. Ontological and epistemological positioning 6. Engaging with the literature 7. Questions doctoral researchers ask about theory 8. Writing an introductory chapter for your examiners 9. Writing the contextualisation chapter 10. Writing the research design chapter 11. Writing the concluding chapter 12. Answering the “So what?” question 13. Achieving alignment across the thesis 14. Writing an abstract 15. Writing great titles 16. Questions examiners ask you (in a viva) Some other resources for doctoral researchers References Appendix 1: SmartPrompt: Evaluating Your Research Questions Appendix 2: SmartPrompt: Evaluating Your Use of Theory Appendix 3: SmartPrompt: Evaluating Your Project Proposal Appendix 4: SmartPrompt: Evaluating Your Engagement with the Literature Appendix 5: SmartPrompt: Evaluating Your Research Design Appendix 6: SmartPrompt: Evaluating Your Answer to the ‘So What?’ Questio