The qualitative dissertation : a guide for students and faculty /
Maria Piantanida, Noreen B. Garman ; foreword by Frances Schoonmaker.
- Second edition.
- xxiv, 301 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-298) and index.
Coming to study -- On the deliberative nature of the dissertation -- Meanings of the dissertation -- Facing the dissertation -- Orienting oneself to interpretive inquiry -- Situating oneself in the inquiry -- Rethinking the concept of method -- Rethinking the concept of data -- Moving from the experiential to the theoretic -- Developing ideas for the dissertation proposal -- Crafting an interpretive dissertation proposal -- Proposing the dissertation study -- Living with the study -- Entering into public discourse? : the dissertation meeting -- Life after the dissertation.