The Graduate Student's Backpack: It's What You Need on the Research Path (ASA CSSA and SSSA Books)

About this book

The new graduate student must select a graduate committee plan course work find an original research topic and design a research plan that ultimately leads to a defensible thesis or series of publishable research articles. Whether a graduate student plans a research career or not he or she typically must complete an original independent analytical study even though few beginning students know how or where to begin. A little help would be good right? This process-oriented manual holds the fundamentals students in the sciences need to trek the graduate school pathit is their backpack. Open it and see what it can do for you.