Dear All,
please don't read and disregard my question. Try to help me to find out something about my inquiry. I was thinking if I can do my phd online. Do you have any idea about some good standing universities in Canada that provide online phd degrees. Actually, I have no problem to be doing my phd as 50% online and 50% in campus.
Thanks,

Hi all,
I also have the same question. Actually, I want to approach one or two of the professors who have the same area I am willing to study but the question is: why do I have to do so? What do I tell them? Do I tell them that I applied to the university and see if they can be my supervisors. What kind of things do prospective phd students say to the supervisors? Please give us your insights.
Thanks,

please any suggestions, any replies...

Hi everyone,
As I am very much concerned and worried I would like to hear from people who are having the same experience in applications to phds. Actually, I applied to UOttawa for the phd for the fall 2012. I waited about 9 weeks until I got a reply of rejection telling me that I didn't submit the right English exam since English is not my first language. I submitted the ielts general training instead of academic. So now I am reapplying and I submitted the academic ielts exam results, but I am very anxious to know about the process of evaluation of my application. Do you think that when I first applied, my file or application was successful except for the English that I have to submit or the committee didn't see my documents (transcripts, SoP, letters of recommendations, resume,..) and if it is the case, then why did they take that long time to tell me that I am rejected. How do you consider my chances to be accepted, I have a good GPA and I have a very long professional experience in my field.
Thank you in advance for sharing your thoughts

Hi all,
after finishing my MA degree, I am applying now to a university in Canada. In the application they ask me to provide: a narrative statement (3-4) pages stating research interests, professional goals and expectations.
Does anyone have an idea of what I can write in this statement. Can you give me some guidelines. Do you have a similar kind of statement that you submitted with your application for the PHD.
Thank you all for your help,

Thank you lughna for your answer. Actually my area of specialization is education. Is it really a proposal that I have to submit? I mean should it be very formal or just an idea of what I am aiming at or looking forward in the future in my research. I'm afraid as this statement is considered very important in the evaluation of my application. Can you suggest a guidebook for me? Is there any sample of a statement paper for an education PHD student that I can take it as an example?

Please any suggestion?????

Hi all,
after finishing my MA degree, I am applying now to a university in Canada. In the application they ask me to provide: a narrative statement (3-4) pages stating research interests, professional goals and expectations.
Does anyone have an idea of what I can write in this statement. Can you give me some guidelines. Do you have a similar kind of statement that you submitted with your application for the PHD.
Thank you all for your help,

Dear all,
I need to prepare myself to my thesis defense which is going to be early next week. Can you please help me by giving me some advice and telling how I should go through it and what is expected from me in this defense.
Thanks,

Thank you Pjlu,Emmaki,JustNic,and Cate for your concerns, ideas, guidance and time for responding to my queries. I really appreciate it. I will try to read more of the books you suggested and if I still have questions, I will refer back to you if you don't mind.
Regards,

Thank you Pjlu for your answer. Everytime I discuss my concerns on this forum, things become clearer in my mind. Having the advice from someone like you or JustNic is really valuable because at least you passed through the situation I'm in now and experienced it. Well, I liked the idea of downloading theses to see how others report the data in chapter 4 yet this option is not available in my university (we are not allowed to download theses) and for very critical circumnstances it's very hard to go to my univeristy now and sit to read what others wrote in chapter 4 and how they reported their findings. I don't know (I appologize for being too demanding), if you can just send me some theses downloaded by you. If this is possible please tell me to send you my email address. I thank you again and be assured that discussing the issue with me opened new ideas and at least I'm happy now that the way I'm thinking and working is to some extent correct. I know that I might have to change, modify, or delete maybe some of things that I wrote, yet this process will let me gain more experience. Actually, I'm writing from an unstabled country in the middle east and all these things are putting more pressure on me and that's why I'm being too demanding maybe from some seniors in this wonderful forum. All thanks for your ideas and advice.

Thank you a lot JustNic. I really appreciate your answer. Actually this school is conducting a process of instructional supervision which can be described as a systematic one with teachers. This process is written in the school system (i,e procedure of the process is documented step by step with accompanying forms for each step). My aim or my research questions are: to describe how this process is being conducted, to get teachers and supervisors views about this process, to investigate how this process is contributing to the professaional development of teachers and my last question will be to suggest how this process can be modified to meet teachers and supervisors needs more. I'm doing this since I work in this school. Well, now you knew my research questions, so I found that I can get data for some of them from all instruments used while for others I can get data from 1 or 2 instruments only. for example, for describing the process, I think the best way is to do interviews, document review (as I told you this process is documented in the school system, part of the school policy and manual), and observations and I can include some items in my questionnaires. My questionnaires are closed ended (4 type likert scale: strongly agree, agree, somewhat agree, disagree). Now can you please help me a little more by discussing how I can present the data. My supervisor wants me to present data under each research question. I appreciate your answer and thanks in advance.

Thank you JustNic for your reply. I was about to lose hope of finding someone in this forum to share experiences with me. actually by mentioning those names of books or authors you're indirectly guiding me. I feel frustrated as I'm doing this research yet I'm not pretty sure whetehr what I'm doing is right. I have a supevisor but not helpful at all. she asked me to put data uder research questions. I have questionnaires for both teachers and supervisors with very little variations in items of these questionnaires, I have interviews done with both, I have field observaions (non participant) which I took as writing what I'm observing like anecdotal report, and I have docuemnt review. NOW the problem is really I'm facing trouble of how to present this data under each researh question. Even the items in the questionnaires that elicits data about each research question are many so when I present the mean of each item do I just present it as in the table or I have to write about each item without discussion since I have to leave the discussion till the last chapter I guess. or I don't say anything about each item and I just keep the numbers as presented in the table and put that these are results from quesionnaires. Can you please provide me with any thesis that I can download in order just to see how the researcher presented the data taken from documents, interviews, observations and questionanaires if any?

I really appreciate help from any other researhcers in this forum.
Thanks again,

Dear seniors in this forum,
I asked this questions previously but unfortuanetly nobody could answer me. I hope I can get an answer now. I'm doing a research about instructional supervision (a case study of a school). I have data from a questionnaire, interviews, documents review and observations. The observations I did were open i,e I didn't use any checklists or the like, they were anecdotal. Can you please suggest for me how I can present this data knowing that I'm preserting my data under research questions.
I appreciate your opinions and suggestions.
Thanks,

Thank you pjlu. I will look at the recommended readings in our university library though it's a little poor in such resources. I have one more question and sorry for being too demanding. How do I present my observation data knowing that I didn't do any checklists or the like. I took field notes. It was an anecdotal report for each situation. I want to present this data also under research questions: how do you recommned I do it?any idea?
Big thanks,