Surviving your dissertation : a comprehensive guide to content and process / Kjell Erik Rudestam, Rae R. Newton.
Material type: TextPublisher: Los Angeles : SAGE Publications, [2007]Copyright date: ©2007Edition: Third editionDescription: viii, 317 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 141291678X
- 1412916798
- 9781412916783
- 9781412916790
- 808.02 22
- LB2369 .R83 2007
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-302) and index.
Getting started -- The research process -- Selecting a suitable topic -- Methods of inquiry : quantitative and qualitative approaches -- Working with content : the dissertation chapters -- Literature review and statement of the problem -- The method chapter : describing your research plan -- Presenting the results of quantitative studies -- Presenting the results of qualitative studies -- Discussion -- Working with process : what you need to know to make the dissertation easier -- Overcoming barriers : becoming an expert while controlling your own destiny -- Writing -- How to complete your dissertation using online data access and collection -- Guidelines for the presentation of numbers in the dissertation -- Informed consent and other ethical concerns -- References -- Name index -- Subject index.
Aimed at graduate students, this edition offers readers guidance that other dissertation guides often miss, from ways to improve one's writing, to identifying one's learning preferences, to dealing with emotional blocks.
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