
Surviving Your Dissertation
A Comprehensive Guide to Content and Process
SAGE Publications Inc (Publisher)
3rd Edition
Published on 13. June 2007
Book
Hardback
328 pages
978-1-4129-1678-3 (ISBN)
Description
"The book is an excellent addition to those already available in the area and provides a very practical guide that students can pick up and use for reference throughout their dissertation process."
-ESCalate (a Higher Education Academy Network publication)
Like the previous editions of this bestselling text, Surviving Your Dissertation: A Comprehensive Guide to Content and Process, Third 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. Using examples from a wide range of disciplines, the authors give readers expert advice on the entire dissertation process: selecting a suitable topic; conducting a literature review; managing data overload; building an argument; presenting the material, data, and results; and working with faculty committees. The entire text has been updated and fresh examples have been added to it. This edition features an up-to-the-minute discussion of online research and the use of software packages. The authors have expanded their coverage of qualitative work, and added information about the use of mixed methods to the book. These updates and more make the Third Edition of Surviving Your Dissertation a must have resource for graduate students.
Key Features of the Third Edition:
Walks readers through the dissertation process as an ideal mentor would.
Devotes more attention to qualitative work, and touches upon mixed methods.
Discusses online library resources and completing one's dissertation via the Internet.
Features new material on the use of graphics.
Includes information about informed consent forms.
-ESCalate (a Higher Education Academy Network publication)
Like the previous editions of this bestselling text, Surviving Your Dissertation: A Comprehensive Guide to Content and Process, Third 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. Using examples from a wide range of disciplines, the authors give readers expert advice on the entire dissertation process: selecting a suitable topic; conducting a literature review; managing data overload; building an argument; presenting the material, data, and results; and working with faculty committees. The entire text has been updated and fresh examples have been added to it. This edition features an up-to-the-minute discussion of online research and the use of software packages. The authors have expanded their coverage of qualitative work, and added information about the use of mixed methods to the book. These updates and more make the Third Edition of Surviving Your Dissertation a must have resource for graduate students.
Key Features of the Third Edition:
Walks readers through the dissertation process as an ideal mentor would.
Devotes more attention to qualitative work, and touches upon mixed methods.
Discusses online library resources and completing one's dissertation via the Internet.
Features new material on the use of graphics.
Includes information about informed consent forms.
Reviews / Votes
"In nearly each chapter the authors list 'suggestions from students' to provide some relief in the whole process. For the scholar practitioner, the ease with which the whole process is explained will reduce the stress, and yet result in a high standard of research in dissertations. This book is helpful for both the mentor and mentee in Ph.D. or Ed.D. program." -- Jerry Horgen * The School Administrator *More details
Edition
3rd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Thousand Oaks
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
685 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4129-1678-3 (9781412916783)
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Kjell Erik Rudestam | Rae R. Newton
Surviving Your Dissertation
A Comprehensive Guide to Content and Process
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05/2007
3rd Edition
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Kjell Erik Rudestam | Rae R. Newton
Surviving Your Dissertation
A Comprehensive Guide to Content and Process
Book
11/2000
2nd Edition
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€86.96
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Persons
Kjell Erik Rudestam is Professor of Psychology at Fielding Graduate University, Santa Barbara, California, where he served as Associate Dean of Academic Affairs for many years. He was previously a psychology professor at York University, Toronto, and Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, after receiving his PhD in Psychology (Clinical) from the University of Oregon. He is the author of Your Statistical Consultant: Answers to Your Data Analysis Questions, 2nd edition (also with Rae R. Newton), Handbook of Online Learning, 2nd edition (with Judith Schoenholtz-Read), and eight other books, as well as numerous articles in professional journals on topics including suicide, psychotherapy, and family and organizational systems. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (Division 12), a Diplomate of the American Board of Examiners in Professional
Psychology (Clinical), a Diplomate of the American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress, and holds an Honorary Doctorate of Science from The Professional School of Psychology.
Rae R. Newton is Professor of Sociology Emeritus at California State University, Fullerton. He recently joined the faculty of the School of Psychology at Fielding Graduate University where he serves as a research consultant and statistical advisor to doctoral students and faculty. He received his PhD in sociology from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and completed postdoctoral training in mental health measurement at Indiana University. His primary interests include longitudinal modeling of outcomes for high risk youth and foster care populations, family violence and statistics education. He is author, with Kjell Erik Rudestam, of Your Statistical Consultant: Answers to Your Data Analysis Questions, now in its second edition and numerous articles in professional journals on topics including family violence, child maltreatment, and measurement. In semi-retirement he enjoys traveling with his wife in their RV and surfing throughout Mexico and Central America.
Psychology (Clinical), a Diplomate of the American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress, and holds an Honorary Doctorate of Science from The Professional School of Psychology.
Rae R. Newton is Professor of Sociology Emeritus at California State University, Fullerton. He recently joined the faculty of the School of Psychology at Fielding Graduate University where he serves as a research consultant and statistical advisor to doctoral students and faculty. He received his PhD in sociology from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and completed postdoctoral training in mental health measurement at Indiana University. His primary interests include longitudinal modeling of outcomes for high risk youth and foster care populations, family violence and statistics education. He is author, with Kjell Erik Rudestam, of Your Statistical Consultant: Answers to Your Data Analysis Questions, now in its second edition and numerous articles in professional journals on topics including family violence, child maltreatment, and measurement. In semi-retirement he enjoys traveling with his wife in their RV and surfing throughout Mexico and Central America.
Content
PART I: Getting Started
Chapter 1. The Research Process
Chapter 2. Selecting a Suitable Topic
Chapter 3. Methods of Inquiry: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches
PART II: Working With Content: The Dissertation Chapters
Chapter 4. Review of the Literature and Statement of the Problem
Chapter 5. The Method Chapter: Describing Your Research Plan
Chapter 6. Presenting the Results of Quantitative Studies
Chapter 7. Presenting the Results of Qualitative Studies
Chapter 8. Discussion
PART III: Working With Process: What You Need to Know to Make the Dissertation Easier
Chapter 9. Overcoming Barriers: Becoming an Expert While Controlling Your Own Destiny
Chapter 10. Writing
Chapter 11. How to Complete Your Dissertation Using Online Data Access and Collection
Chapter 12. Guidelines for the Presentation of Numbers in the Dissertation
Chapter 13. Informed Consent and Other Ethical Concerns
Chapter 1. The Research Process
Chapter 2. Selecting a Suitable Topic
Chapter 3. Methods of Inquiry: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches
PART II: Working With Content: The Dissertation Chapters
Chapter 4. Review of the Literature and Statement of the Problem
Chapter 5. The Method Chapter: Describing Your Research Plan
Chapter 6. Presenting the Results of Quantitative Studies
Chapter 7. Presenting the Results of Qualitative Studies
Chapter 8. Discussion
PART III: Working With Process: What You Need to Know to Make the Dissertation Easier
Chapter 9. Overcoming Barriers: Becoming an Expert While Controlling Your Own Destiny
Chapter 10. Writing
Chapter 11. How to Complete Your Dissertation Using Online Data Access and Collection
Chapter 12. Guidelines for the Presentation of Numbers in the Dissertation
Chapter 13. Informed Consent and Other Ethical Concerns