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Guide to an engineering Ph.D. literature review

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Contemplating a literature review? Remember these sage tips from Ph.D. dissertation help guides. “What do researchers know? What do they not know? What has been researched and what has not been researched? Is the research reliable and trustworthy? Where are the gaps in the knowledge? When you compile all that together, you have yourself a literature review.” ― Jim Ollhoff, How to Write a Literature Review. As you write the Ph.D. engineering literature review, ensure you follow these tips to showcase your ideas  (Jensen) : Compare and contrast views of different authors; critique previous research work; reveal lapses in existing research; shed light on how your work relates to previous work; state problems, conflicts, debates, gaps; define a research area in a new way; and, probe previous work’s results. You must structure your lit review. Yes, these are the 2 ways you can arrange your  Ph.D. literature review .  A chronological structure lists the order of publicat

Citing authors of printed books

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A ready reckoner for academic writers. You have created your bibliography but now you are in a quandary about citations; you have specific questions as to whether one has to cite all authors or just the first two authors. In this blog,  PHD Assistance experts  provide a reference table on how to cite references (printed books only) the right way particularly for one and more than one author. The scope of this blog is limited to parenthetical citations (in-line or in-text citations) from printed books; hence, this article does not cover other nitty-gritties such as citing databases, images, newspapers, no known authors, online, etc. CMS (or Chicago), APA, and MLA —these are the popular style manuals we particularly cover and show you how they vary when it comes to citations. Here is a quick snapshot of their usage for one, two, and more than two authors. A  citation is not required  if common sense and ethics dictates so; for example, you do not need to cite common say

Guide to an engineering Ph.D. literature review - PhD Assistance

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Contemplating a literature review? Remember these sage tips from Ph.D. dissertation help guides. “What do researchers know? What do they not know? What has been researched and what has not been researched? Is the research reliable and trustworthy? Where are the gaps in the knowledge? When you compile all that together, you have yourself a literature review.” ― Jim Ollhoff, How to Write a Literature Review. As you write the Ph.D. engineering literature review, ensure you follow these tips to showcase your ideas  (Jensen) : Compare and contrast views of different authors; critique previous research work; reveal lapses in existing research; shed light on how your work relates to previous work; state problems, conflicts, debates, gaps; define a research area in a new way; and, probe previous work’s results. You must structure your lit review. Yes, these are the 2 ways you can arrange your  Ph.D. literature review .  A chronological structure lists the order of public

“Multiple Regression” strategy to deploy in your Phd Study

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“Multiple Regression” strategy to deploy in your Phd Study You would know about linear regression. For the uninitiated, it is the simplest and most largely used statistical model for predictive modeling. Well, mathematicians generally prefer to describe values as either dependent or independent variables. Independent variables are the specific inputs of the experiment and dependent variables are the output. The dependent variables rely on the outcome of the experiment. The target variables rely on the independent variables. Difference between Linear Regression and Multiple  Regression analysis in Research Multiple regression is quite an extension of simple linear regression. It is applied when we want to estimate the value of a variable dependent on the value of two or more other variables. Now we will see in what way multiple regression is an extension of linear regression. While in the linear regression, we have to apply only one independent variable and dependent

What is the easiest way to conduct a literature review paper in a short time?

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What is the easiest way to conduct a literature review paper in a short time? Before delving the question, let’s understand what a  literature review is in a dissertation . It is an examination of existing scholarly publications that have a straightforward connection with your research question, which is the core of the dissertation. The literature review serves the following purpose: Gives background details on a topic Give a fair idea of the research undertaken Elucidates on the past and current argument Join the dots between the previous literature and your own. You go through several sources including scholarly journals, books, websites etc. for your literature review. The  literature review  gives a gist, outline and analysis of each source. This section has a special place in your graduate/masters/Ph D thesis. You have to follow these steps for an effective literature review: 1.Highlight the subject and the scope of the review. 2.Perform an

How to select the right topic for your PhD in Computer Science?

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How to select the right topic for your PhD in Computer Science?              Cloud Computing The PhD student, who is in touch with technology, would be aware of this aspect. Well, you don’t need your computer’s hard drive here. Cloud is dependent on the internet where there is central remote server. There are three ways of deploying cloud resources and it includes public, private, and hybrid cloud. Economic in nature and performance are the main essence of these three clouds.  However, the hybrid cloud is distinguished in its control aspect. Now the PhD enthusiast would be wondering in what way the cloud technology can assists AI. It gives the necessary details for the learning processes. AI can assist cloud by giving information that can provide more data. With AI’s capability to organize the great potential of the cloud, the PhD enthusiast would have interesting aspects to explore.  C omputer science engineering dissertation topics  are easy to explore with profi

Quoting and paraphrasing appropriately in your engineering dissertation

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Quoting and paraphrasing appropriately in your engineering dissertation As a student, you would be aware that good writing is a matter of a lot of thoroughness. You require a lot of time to write, rewrite, revise and edit. Sometimes, it so happens that the student gets stressed by the writing task and start searching for a substitute which is nothing but plagiarism. But he/she should remember that just as there is no shortcut to success, he/she should also take plagiarism seriously. The key is that students should not succumb to plagiarism. The student should realize that this unadvisable academic conduct will result in poor grades. While you are doing your engineering dissertation, you use several ideas and analyses from other researchers. This is done since your dissertation further investigates previous studies. When you are using another person’s work, it can be carried out in two ways; quoting or paraphrasing that work. When you seek the guidance of  dissertation literatu