Book Reviews

 
ASGS reviews books with direct relevance to doctoral students involved in doing a dissertation. The following books have been reviewed and are recommended by ASGS. If you have a book to suggest for review, please send a copy of the book with your request.
 

Writing Your Dissertation With Microsoft Word

A Step-by-step Guide

By Vincent Kiernan

This book is a handy guide for students confronting the mysteries of using Microsoft word to format their dissertations in the editorial style required by their universities. The author uses step-by-step, easy to follow instructions for page numbering, footnoting, reference list indenting, and other editorial formatting puzzles.

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The Dissertation Journey

A Practical and Comprehensive Guide to

Planning, Writing, and Defending Your Dissertation

By Carol M. Roberts

This book is a compendium of goodies, checklists, helpful hints, and sample forms together with organization and time management tips, information on using technology, and suggestions for support groups.

The author uses simple, easy to understand language without any of the pretensions of many other manuals written by academics for graduate students. Highly readable and useful.

 
 
 

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