There are many books on the market with advice for graduate students and other researchers. Some are listed here in various categories.

General advice for graduate students:

• Bloom, D.F., Karp, J.D., & Cohen, N. (1998). The Ph.D. Process, A Student's Guide to Graduate School in the Sciences. New York: Oxford University Press.

This is the book for every graduate student in the physical sciences to read.

• Bolker, J. (1998). Writing your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day. New York: Henry Holt and Company LLC.

• Booth, W.C., Williams, J.M., & Coulomb, G.C. (2003). The Craft of Research, 2nd edn, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

• Davis, G.B. & Parker, C.A. (1997). Writing the Doctoral Dissertation. New York: Barron's Educational Series Inc.

• Feibelman, P.J. (1993). A Ph.D. is Not Enough! A Guide to Survival in Science. Cambridge MA: Perseus Publishing.

• Medawar, P.B. (1979). Advice to a Young Scientist. Basic Books.

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• Peters, R.L. (1997). Getting What You Came For, The Smart Student's Guide to Earning a Master's or Ph.D., revised edn, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

The scientific method:

• Gauch, H.G., Jr. (2003). Scientific Method in Practice. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

• Goldstein, I.F. & Goldstein, M. (1984). The Experience of Science. New York: Plenum Press.

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