Surviving your dissertation : a comprehensive guide to content and process /
By: Rudestam, Kjell Erik
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Contributor(s): Newton, Rae R
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Publisher: Los Angeles : SAGE Publications, c2007Edition: 3rd ed.Description: viii, 317 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781412916783 (cloth : alk. paper); 9781412916783:; 141291678X (cloth : alk. paper); 9781412916790 (pbk. : alk. paper); 1412916798 (pbk. : alk. paper).Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- United States![](/opac-tmpl/bootstrap/images/filefind.png)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-302) and indexes.
Getting started. The research process ; Selecting a suitable topic ; Methods of inquiry : quantitative and qualitative approaches -- Working with the 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 research ; 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 / Jody Veroff. 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.
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.