Destination dissertation A traveler's guide to a done dissertation
Book - 2016
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- Published
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Lanham, Maryland :
Rowman & Littlefield
[2016]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Other Authors
- Edition
- Second edition
- Physical Description
- xiv, 450 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN
- 9781442246133
9781442246140
- Acknowledgments
- New in the Second Edition
- Chapter 1. Preparing to Go: The Dissertation Journey
- Can a Dissertation Really Be a Trip?
- Packing Your Bags
- Enjoyment
- Doability
- Competence
- Agency
- Support
- Our Guarantees
- Your Travel Agents
- How to Use This Guide
- Chapter 2. The Journey before You: 29 Steps
- Our Timetable
- Yeah, But
- Chapter 3. Planning the Trip: The Conceptual Conversation
- Selecting and Orienting a Partner
- Asking and Answering Questions
- Identifying Key Pieces
- Chapter 4. Developing Your Itinerary: The Preproposal
- Naming the Problem
- Formulating Your Research Question
- Criteria for a Good Research Question
- Multiple Research Questions
- Selecting Your Data
- Identifying Your Method of Data Collection
- Identifying Your Method of Data Analysis
- Identifying the Literature to Review
- Identifying the Significance of Your Study
- Identifying Your Chapters
- Writing Your Preproposal
- Assessing Your Decisions
- Committing to the Preproposal with Your Advisor
- Chapter 5. Advice from Other Travelers: The Literature Review
- Coding Your Literature
- Keyboardtng Method
- Photocopying Method
- Cutting Apart Your Codes
- Sorting Your Codes
- Checking Your Piles
- Creating Your Conceptual Schema
- Writing It Up
- Chapter 6. Getting There: The Dissertation Proposal
- Introduction
- Research Question
- Definition of Terms
- Literature Review
- Research Design
- Data
- History or Context
- Procedures
- Assumptions or Theoretical Framework
- Significance of the Study
- Outline of the Study
- Approval of the Proposal
- Chapter 7. Things to See and Do: Data Collection and Analysis
- Collecting Your Data
- Creating Codable Data
- Identifying Your Unit of Analysis
- Coding Your Data
- Sorting Your Codes
- Checking Your Codes
- Creating Your Explanatory Schema
- Getting Inspiration for Your Explanatory Schema
- Talking Out Loud
- Random Stimulation
- Shifting Focus
- Aristotle's Topics
- Reversing
- Framing
- Assessing Your Explanatory Schema
- Writing It Up
- Chapter 8. Making the Most of Your Travels: The Last Chapter Plus
- Summary
- Interpretation of Findings
- Limitations
- Suggestions for Future Research
- Three-Article Format
- Finishing Up
- Chapter 9. Useful Phrases: Writing and Editing
- Fast Writing
- Switching Off the Screen
- Making Notes to Yourself
- Writing with Headings
- Skipping Around
- Getting Unstuck
- Slow Revising
- Editing
- Proofreading
- Chapter 10. Travelogue: The Dissertation Defense
- Preparing for Your Defense
- The Defense Itself
- The Opening
- The Questions
- Your Answers
- The Closing
- Following Your Defense
- Chapter 11. Making the Best Use of Your Guide: Advisor Advising
- Asking Appropriately
- Agreeing on a Vision
- Expectations about Roles
- Expectations about Advising
- Expectations about Dissertations
- Articulating Needs
- Conceptual Conversation
- Ground Rules
- Information about the Dissertation Process
- Information about Research and Writing
- Information about the Dissertation Defense
- Enacting Professionalism
- Assessing Your Relationship
- Understanding Your Advisor's Perspective
- Framing Issues Collaboratively
- Protecting Your Advisor's Face
- Planning for Action
- Applying Productive Chicanery
- Performing Completion
- Asking for Help from a Mediator
- Adding a Coadvisor
- Switching Advisors
- Chapter 12. Avoiding Delays and Annoyances: Enacting the Scholar Role
- Incomplete-Scholar Roles
- Housekeeper
- Model Employee
- Undocumented Worker
- Patient
- Good Student
- Proxy Critic
- Executor
- Maverick
- Enacting the Scholar Role: Writing Regularly
- Writing on a Schedule
- Focusing on Successes
- Index
- About the Authors