Destination Dissertation: A Traveler's Guide to a Done DissertationRowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2007 - 368 стор. Dissertations aren't walls to scale or battles to fight; they are destinations along the path to a professional career. Destination Dissertation is a handbook that helps students successfully develop and complete their dissertations. It uses travel as a metaphor framing the process as an exciting trip of 29 steps that can be completed in less than nine months. Designed for use by students in all disciplines and for both quantitative and qualitative dissertations, the book shows concrete and efficient processes for completing those parts of the dissertation where students tend to get stuck, from conceptualizing a topic to editing the final work. It includes a wealth of real-life examples from throughout the dissertation process, such as creating the proposal and coding data. This time-tested method comes from the authors' successful work at the Denver-based Scholars' Retreat. Essential for all PhD candidates! |
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PREPARING TO GO THE DISSERTATION JOURNEY | 1 |
Can a Dissertation Really Be a Trip? | 2 |
Packing Your Bags | 3 |
Competence | 4 |
Agency | 6 |
Our Guarantees | 7 |
Your Travel Agents | 10 |
How to Use This Guide | 13 |
MAKING THE MOST OF YOUR TRAVELS THE LAST CHAPTER PLUS | 217 |
Summary | 218 |
Interpretation of Findings | 224 |
Limitations | 237 |
Suggestions for Future Research | 243 |
Finishing Up | 249 |
USEFUL PHRASES WRITING AND EDITING | 265 |
Fast Writing | 266 |
THE JOURNEY BEFORE YOU 29 STEPS | 17 |
Our Timetable | 18 |
Yeah But | 22 |
Dissertation Checklist | 23 |
PLANNING THE TRIP THE CONCEPTUAL CONVERSATION | 25 |
Selecting and Orienting a Partner | 27 |
Asking and Answering Questions | 28 |
Identifying Key Pieces | 31 |
DEVELOPING YOUR ITINERARY THE PREPROPOSAL | 35 |
Formulating Your Research Question | 36 |
Criteria for a Good Research Question | 37 |
Multiple Research Questions | 43 |
Selecting Your Data | 46 |
Aligning Your Research Question and Your Data | 48 |
Identifying Your Method of Data Collection | 50 |
Identifying Your Method of Data Analysis | 51 |
Identifying the Literature to Review | 52 |
Identifying the Significance of Your Study | 57 |
Identifying Your Chapters | 59 |
Writing Your Preproposal | 60 |
Assessing Your Decisions | 69 |
Committing to the Preproposal with Your Advisor | 71 |
ADVICE FROM OTHER TRAVELERS THE LITERATURE REVIEW | 75 |
Sorting Your Codes | 84 |
Checking Your Codes | 86 |
Writing It Up | 92 |
GETTING THERE THE DISSERTATION PROPOSAL | 113 |
Introduction | 115 |
Research Question | 120 |
Definition of Terms | 122 |
Literature Review | 125 |
Research Design | 126 |
History or Context | 135 |
Procedures | 142 |
Data Analysis | 146 |
Assumptions | 151 |
Significance of the Study | 157 |
Outline of the Study | 161 |
Sections of a Dissertation Proposal | 163 |
THINGS TO SEE AND DO DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS | 185 |
Creating Codable Data | 186 |
Coding Your Data | 187 |
Sorting Your Codes | 191 |
Checking Your Codes | 194 |
Creating Your Explanatory Schema | 196 |
Writing It Up | 212 |
Turning Off the Screen | 268 |
Making Notes to Self | 269 |
Writing with Headings | 270 |
Skipping Around | 272 |
Slow Revising | 273 |
Proofreading | 275 |
ComputerAided Proofreading | 276 |
Hard Copy Proofreading | 277 |
TRAVELOGUETHE DISSERTATION DEFENSE | 279 |
Preparing for Your Defense | 280 |
The Defense Itself | 284 |
Following Your Defense | 290 |
MAKING THE BEST USE OF YOUR GUIDE ADVISOR ADVISING | 293 |
Asking Appropriately | 294 |
Agreeing on a Vision | 298 |
Expectations about Advising | 299 |
Replication Model | 300 |
Cocreation Model | 301 |
Articulating Needs | 303 |
Information about the Dissertation Process | 314 |
Information about Research and Writing | 315 |
Enacting Professionalism | 317 |
Assessing Your Relationship | 320 |
Understanding Your Advisors Perspective | 321 |
Framing Issues Collaboratively | 322 |
Protecting Your Advisors Face | 323 |
Planning for Action | 324 |
Applying Productive Chicanery | 325 |
Performing Completion | 327 |
Asking for Help from a Mediator | 328 |
Switching Advisors | 329 |
AVOIDING DELAYS AND ANNOYANCES ENACTING THE SCHOLAR ROLE | 331 |
IncompleteScholar Roles | 332 |
Housekeeper | 333 |
Model Employee | 334 |
Undocumented Worker | 336 |
Patient | 337 |
Good Student | 339 |
Proxy Critic | 340 |
Executor | 341 |
Maverick | 343 |
Writing on a Schedule | 345 |
Focusing on Successes | 350 |
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ABOUT THE AUTHORS | 367 |
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Destination Dissertation: A Traveler's Guide to a Done Dissertation Sonja K. Foss Обмежений попередній перегляд - 2015 |
Destination Dissertation: A Traveler's Guide to a Done Dissertation Sonja K. Foss Обмежений попередній перегляд - 2007 |
Destination Dissertation: A Traveler's Guide to a Done Dissertation Sonja K. Foss,William Joseph Condon Waters Попередній перегляд недоступний - 2016 |
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