This engaging and highly regarded book takes readers through the key stages of their PhD research journey, from the initial ideas through to successful completion and publication. It gives helpful guidance on forming research questions, organising ideas, pulling together a final draft, handling the viva and getting published. Each chapter contains a wealth of practical suggestions and tips for readers to try out and adapt to their own research needs and disciplinary style. This text will be essential reading for PhD students and their supervisors in humanities, arts, social sciences, business, law, health and related disciplines.

Developing Creative Thinking to Improve Academic Writing, Part One fosters skills of critical thinking needed in academia in which graduation papers and other kinds of research assignments are written. Moreover, the book enhances the abilities of intermediate and upper-intermediate level international students to reflect on their own metacognition in order to produce well-structured essays. The purpose of this book is to help the students develop a high level of cognitive skills in order to analyze, examine, verify, and develop ideas required to process topics from new and/or multiple unfamiliar standpoints and generate as many details as possible about it. Improving critical thinking skills encourages the students to create new mental thinking channels and promote their own philosophy in their writing to make it thoroughly sophisticated.

Developing Creative Thinking to Improve Academic Writing Part Two Advanced Level textbook helps enhancing lateral thinking within the given contextual frame in order to promote students intellectual challenge to produce a comprehensive understanding about the topic. This facilitates flexible thinking required to write academic assignments in which arguments are presented for thorough analysis. Since rigid judgments can lead to fossilized views, it is recommended to emphasize the concept that all opinions are correct from the points of view of their holders. In this regard, this book helps college students practice improving their triangular thinking skills which emphasize evaluation of all the aspects of the topic in an equal pattern. Furthermore, this book is useful for ESL college students as well as native speakers of English as it reinforces transformational learning principles which highlight education by inspiration rather than information. Such a strategy can motivate the students to become more creative, more practical and more resourceful and enable them to transform their learning-related thinking abilities and attitudes in order to come to a better understanding of themselves and the world.

Creativity and critical thinking are central to effective teaching and learning and have a significant impact on students' attainment, engagement, attendance and behaviour. This book draws on recent research and policy to provide teachers with a clear framework for understanding creativity and critical thinking and practically demonstrates how they can be incorporated into classroom practice.

Provides concrete guidance, grounded in scientific literature, for researchers to build creative confidence in their work.