Doing the PhD
a PORT for Modern Languages tutorial
1 Supervision
1.5 further references
Estelle M. Phillips and Derek S. Pugh, How to Get a PhD: A Handbook for Students and their Supervisors, 3rd edition (Buckingham, Philadelphia: Open University Press, 2000).
This book contains a much more detailed and prescriptive investigation of the topic. We have chosen to leave it more open.