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Save £8.98 with the PhD pack (compared to buying these three books individually) Don't try to do a doctorate without the PhD pack! with the books in this pack take you right through the PhD process, from your early days of planning to what happens afterwards. How to Get a PhD provides a realistic understanding of the process of doing a doctorate. It looks at key issues such as time management and communicating with supervisors and includes new material on researching, technology, publishing, teaching and supervision. Practical and motivational, How to Write a Thesis addresses the specific challenges of writing your thesis. It guides you though planning, structure, the writing process, dealing with deadlines and revising and is illuminated with down-to-earth examples of essential techniques and activities. How to Survive Your Viva is the first handbook for getting through your viva. Writing a thesis asks you to pull your ideas into a unified whole, then oral exams take it all apart again! With real questions and strategies for answering them, case studies - where it went right, where it went wrong - planning tools, a preparation framework and verbal strategies, this essential handbook gets the most nervous student prepared for a viva. Also from Open University Press The Woman's Guide to Doctoral Studies Doing Your Research Project The Academic Career Handbook