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9780761912507

Secrets for a Successful Dissertation

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    9780761912507

  • ISBN10:

    0761912509

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1998-08-01
  • Publisher: Sage Pubns
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Summary

This book, designed to help doctoral students carry out and complete a successful dissertation, offers a motivational guide to assist in every step of the process.The authors offer a view of the dissertation process which takes students through the doctoral proposal to the formal defense of the dissertation, and which goes beyond the academic by addressing the emotional and mental stress engendered by the process itself.

Table of Contents

Foreword ix
Johanna Steggert Hunsaker
Acknowledgments x
Introduction: Great Expectations xi
Part I: The Secrets of the Dissertation Content and Process
Writing the Doctoral Proposal (aka The Birth of a Nation)
3(16)
Getting to the Topic and Its Focus
4(3)
Writing the Proposal
7(4)
Reviewing the Literature
11(3)
Developing Your Methodology
14(3)
Secrets Checklist
17(2)
Choosing a Methodology (aka A Tale of Two Methodologies)
19(12)
Deciding Which Is Best
20(1)
What Do You Want to Research?
21(5)
Mixed Methodology
26(4)
Secrets Checklist
30(1)
Selecting Committee Members (aka Animal Farm)
31(14)
Reasons for Selecting Each Member
35(2)
Beware of Unreal Timetables
37(1)
When to Replace a Chair
38(2)
Who Fixes Every Last Word?
40(1)
Over and Over Again
41(2)
Secrets Checklist
43(2)
Surviving the Human Subjects Committee (aka Of Human Bondage)
45(10)
Playing by the Rules
46(4)
Intentions
50(2)
How Not to Hang Yourself
52(2)
Secrets Checklist
54(1)
Collecting Data (aka Far From the Maddening Crowd)
55(20)
Tape Talk
56(1)
Be Prepared
57(1)
Interview Challenges
58(4)
What Now?
62(1)
The Concreteness of Surveys
63(2)
Survey and Questionnaire Decisions
65(1)
Pilot Studies/Idetified Population
66(3)
Types of Surveys to Expect
69(2)
Secrets Checklist for Interviews
71(1)
Secrets Checklist for Surveys
72(3)
Part II: The Secrets to Maintaining Sanity and Good Humor
Developing a Support Group (aka Two Years Before the Last)
75(14)
Can You Fire-Walk Together?
76(2)
Be Careful Whom You Choose
78(5)
Loneliness Happens
83(2)
Dealing With Emotions
85(1)
Moby's Sick...
85(1)
Dorian Is Getting Gray
86(1)
Secrets Checklist
87(2)
Getting Organized (aka Hidden Habits of Demented Dissertation Writers)
89(20)
When Everything Is in Pieces
91(3)
Getting Control of Your Life
94(3)
Qualitative Coding
97(2)
Statistics
99(3)
Hoops and Troughs
102(2)
How to Avoid the Withering Frights
104(3)
Secrets Checklist
107(2)
Using Technology (aka Gone With the Windows)
109(18)
Learning the Language
110(1)
What to Do With Floppity Flops
111(1)
Dealing With Rebellious Floppies
112(1)
Statistical Analysis
113(1)
Qualitative Coding
114(2)
Getting a Life
116(3)
We Can Survive This Challenge
119(1)
What Not to Write
120(3)
It's About Time
123(2)
Secrets Checklist
125(2)
Defending the Dissertation (aka The Power and the Glory)
127(10)
Party Hearty
128(2)
The Final Hours
130(4)
Celebration
134(1)
Secrets Checklist
135(2)
Avoiding Sudden Stops (aka Little Shop of Horrors)
137(34)
Horror Story 1: What Proposal Defense?
138(1)
Horror Story 2: The Human Subjects That Went Awry
138(1)
Horror Story 3: If at First You Don't Succeed
139(1)
Horror Story 4: Warning---Costly Detours Ahead
139(1)
Horror Story 5: Yes, Virginia, Graduation Is an Important Date
140(1)
Horror Story 6: Would the Real Chair Please Sign In
141(1)
Horror Story 7: It Ain't Over 'til It's Over---Politics U
141(1)
Horror Story 8: They Shoot Horses, Don't They? Defenses From Hell
142(1)
Horror Story 9: Dueling Committee Members, Blazing Pistols
143(1)
Horror Story 10: The Bionic Candidate---How to Finish Intact, on Time
143(4)
Emergency Appendectomies
Appendix A: Action Words to Introduce Quotes
147(6)
Appendix B: A Research Proposal: A Checklist of Items for Possible Inclusion
153(10)
Appendix C: Statistical Decision Tree
163(4)
Appendix D: List of Active Verbs
167(4)
Suggested Readings 171(7)
Index 178(5)
About the Authors 183

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