Proposals That Work: A Guide for Planning Dissertations and Grant Proposals

Editorial Review:

Proposals That Work is about how to prepare effective research proposals for graduate theses and dissertations. A major part of the book comments on specimen proposals from a number of social science disciplines. The second edition of this extremely successful guide gives a deeper coverage of the grants process and grant proposal writing, as well as an extra section on qualitative research proposals.

Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

OK if you've never written before:

This book is very general and I guess is good if you have never written any sort of scientific paper.

New book:

It is a brand new. But the shipping speed is some slow. After about 10days I received this book, though I am in need for it.

The Only Proposal Guide You Need:

As any graduate student will tell you acceptance onto a Ph.D program is largely based on submitting a successful proposal. Thereafter, as long as the researcher adheres to the proposal, graduation is virtually guaranteed. I am a Ph.D student who used the book to construct my proposal, which was summarily accepted by the research committee with minor changes. This appears to be contrary to what many Ph.D hopefuls experience. The book is expensive however I would highly recommend it. The proposal hurdle is... more info

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