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General
Expectations
1
Initial competencies
If
you are starting on a Master's programme, your supervisor will expect,
almost without thinking, that you have behind you the skills and
experience of four years undergraduate training, as outlined in
the previous chapters. If you are starting a doctoral programme,
he will expect you to have either an outstanding undergraduate record
(for example, some students, especially in Science, are permitted
to proceed directly from a good Honours degree to a PhD programme)
or else a substantial Master's degree programme from which you can
now develop more advanced research skills.
More
specifically, your supervisor will expect you to be com petent in:
A.
The discipline in which you plan to do research,
includic:
- Familiarity
with the main concepts and theories,
- Experience
in appropriate research methodology, and
- Proficiency
in the language and techniques though which the discipline is
developed.
B.
Elementary research strategies , including
- The use
of library resources and search systems,
- The use,
where appropriate, of laboratory facilities and technical equipment,
- The capacity
to present and participate in departmental seminars, and
- Some experience
in the collection, processing and analyzing of data.
C.
Writing strategies which are appropriate to the production
of a thesis and, in the case of doctoral candidates, of articles
or papers at a standard worthy of international publication in
English.
university you
attend
outstanding
undergraduate record
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