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Special Course of Research Direction

Course developer

Course abstract

Doctoral program shall be acquired in accordance with the doctoral individual plan approved by the Council of the Faculty. The promotional work is formed following the development of research topic in global scale analyzing different sources of scientific literature. After the acceptance of scientific leader the consultations or lecture course are held by Latvian and foreign specialists according to the thesis in accordance with current requirements.

Learning outcomes and their assessment

Doctoral students acquire expertise on the latest findings in the doctoral research direction and possibilities of its use for a particular implementation of the thesis. Doctoral students develop skills in research methodology (study design, data collection and analysis, results interpretation and presentation). Following the course of learning doctoral students are competent to independently develop a doctoral thesis in accordance with current requirements.

Compulsory reading

Mācību pamatliteratūra:
1. Brause R.S.Writing your Doctoral Dissertation. Invisible Rules for Success. Taylor and Francis, New York, 2000, 163 p.
2. Wisker G.The Good Supervisor: Supervising Postgraduate and Undergraduate Research for Doctoral Theses and Dissertations, Palgrave Macmillan,
2005, 392 p.
3. BloombergL.D.Volpe M.F.Completing Your Qualitative Dissertation: A Roadmap From Beginning to End, Sage Publications Inc., 2008, 264 p.
4. Machi L.A.The Literature Review: Six Steps to Succes. Corwin Press, 2008, 184 p.
Atbilstoši vadītāja un konsultantu ieteikumiem.

Further reading

1. Day R.A., Gastel B.How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper, Greenwood, 2011, 300 p.
2. Hofmann A.H. Scientific Writing and Communivcation: Papers, Proposals and Presentations, Oxford University Press, 2009, 704 p.