Rowena Murray Livres

First Published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

A concise, practical introduction that equips students with the skills they need to defend their thesis or dissertation.

Postgraduate students and early-career educators often face significant challenges when starting to teach, feeling unprepared and overwhelmed. This book addresses the common dilemmas they encounter, such as limited time to adapt, reliance on a trial-and-error learning approach, and a lack of control over teaching content and session formats. It acknowledges the pressure of transitioning from student to teacher and provides guidance for those who may doubt their readiness despite previous academic achievements.

"Teaching at University" is a practical guide for postgraduate students and new lecturers facing the challenges of teaching. It offers essential skills, accessible language, and relevant advice to build confidence in lectures and tutorials. With a focus on integrating theory and practice, it's an invaluable resource for diverse disciplines.

Charting the development of Brown's ideas and style, this book offers a study of the poet and writer's work taken as a whole. Including comparative studies of his key works, the authors describe and analyse his works and reflect on his enduring concern to achieve perfection of form and expression.

This comprehensive guide to writing journal articles addresses all the stages and recurring challenges, from targeting a journal to dealing with reviewer feedback. Drawing on many years of running 'Writing for Publication' workshops, Murray explores not only style and structure but also behaviours and emotions. As a key component of both research courses and careers, this timely text also addresses the struggle to make time for high quality academic writing and how to ensure a writing-life balance.Examining a variety of approaches, relevant to many different academic disciplines, this core text demystifies and defines writing practices and makes this form of high-stakes academic writing seem manageable.Writing for journals has never been more competitive, and writers, researchers, practitioners and students need expert guidance on productive practices and ways of maintaining focus and motivation, which Murray provides. This latest edition is completely updated and more relevant than ever for clinicians, practitioners and students.

Moving beyond the basics of thesis writing, the book introduces practical writing techniques such as freewriting, generative writing and binge writing. Issues such as working out the criteria for your thesis, writerʼs block, writing a literature review and making notes into a draft are also covered. This book is suitable for all postgraduate students in higher education who are required to write a thesis as part of their degree qualification. Rowena Murray is Professor of Education, Director of Research at the University of the West of Scotland, UK and Principal Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy. Rowena is also the author of the bestselling books, How to Write a Thesis and Writing for Academic Journals, both published by Open University Press.

Owen uses developments in Third Wave CBT to help with coping effectively with chronic illness and the stress of caring for others.