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The Library Postgraduate Research Support service provides guidance and relevant training that supports postgraduate students and researchers during their research journey.
Information and Research Guides
See the Library Postgraduate Research Support guide for more information on recommended and authoritative resources. This guide provides a useful starting point for finding relevant subject information.
You may also consult the SAGE Research Methods guide to help you in finding the best literature to enable you to choose a methodology and launch into your research project.
Training Programme
A series of training sessions is scheduled to run during the 1st and 2nd semesters. Invitations to these sessions are sent to the postgraduate and research community through UWC Communication.
In the case where dates are not suitable, presentations can be done by invitation. Send an email request to library-research@uwc.ac.za
The session cover but are not limited to the following:
The Division for Postgraduate Studies (DPGS) offers virtual mentoring to registered UWC postgraduate (PG) students.
Duties of the Writing Coaches
Duties of the Statistical Coaches
COACHES DO NOT WRITE FOR STUDENTS AND ARE NOT SUPERVISORS!
To request and be assigned a writing or statistical coach, please complete the JOTFORM via the link below:
https://form.jotform.com/51601578349965
The UWC Writing Centre aims to assist students with academic writing through providing support, feedback and advice, which is given by postgraduate tutors. It also helps lecturers to support the development of students’ writing in their courses.
They offer assistance with the following elements of writing:
There are a few ways of booking a consultation:
You need to provide the Writing Centre with a copy of the draft of the writing you are working on, the assignment question (and instructions). If the lecturer has given you a rubric for the assignment, please share that with us as well. The Writing Centre should be able to give you an appointment within 24 hours, depending on how busy they are. Please leave yourself enough time to work on the assignment once you have received feedback.
Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Research in Africa by
While the papers included in this ebook are commendable for the diverse number of issues and themes, they share a common interest in Africa and extend our understanding of accounting, auditing and accountability practices within the continent. We note that there are challenges for conducting empirical research in public sector accounting and accountability in Africa, as it is elsewhere, but the democratization occurring in various SSA countries (including but not limited to Ghana, Nigeria, Gambia, Kenya and South Africa) presents a tremendous opportunity for fieldwork in the continent. Furthermore, the changing political landscape in South Africa over the last two decades, presents a unique and very rich empirical base for interdisciplinary accounting research. These research opportunities form the bases for our optimism that this special issue of AAAJ would set the stage for future research on Africa. In particular, we anticipate that the special issue should encourage more collaborative interdisciplinary accounting and accountability research from academics based in the African continent and beyond.
The Craft of Research, Fourth Edition by
With more than three-quarters of a million copies sold since its first publication, The Craft of Research has helped generations of researchers at every level--from first-year undergraduates to advanced graduate students to research reporters in business and government--learn how to conduct effective and meaningful research. Conceived by seasoned researchers and educators Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, and Joseph M. Williams, this fundamental work explains how to find and evaluate sources, anticipate and respond to reader reservations, and integrate these pieces into an argument that stands up to reader critique. The fourth edition has been thoroughly but respectfully revised by Joseph Bizup and William T. FitzGerald. It retains the original five-part structure, as well as the sound advice of earlier editions, but reflects the way research and writing are taught and practiced today. Its chapters on finding and engaging sources now incorporate recent developments in library and Internet research, emphasizing new techniques made possible by online databases and search engines. Bizup and FitzGerald provide fresh examples and standardized terminology to clarify concepts like argument, warrant, and problem. Following the same guiding principle as earlier editions--that the skills of doing and reporting research are not just for elite students but for everyone--this new edition retains the accessible voice and direct approach that have made The Craft of Research a leader in the field of research reference. With updated examples and information on evaluation and using contemporary sources, this beloved classic is ready for the next generation of researchers.
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