
Completing a Professional Practice Dissertation
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- Intro
- Completing a Professional Practice Dissertation
- A Guide for Doctoral Students and Faculty
- CONTENTS
- 1. A Bit of History and Lore About Doctoral Programs and Dissertations 1
- 2. The Professional Practice Doctorate 23
- 3. Selecting Your Topic and Purpose 61
- 4. Constructing Your Dissertation Team 95
- 5. Sources of Knowledge and Perspective 123
- 6. Selecting The Methods for Your Dissertation 177
- 7. Traditional Qualitative Research Methods 197
- 8. Emergent and Innovative Qualitative Research Methods for Professional Practice Dissertations 217
- 9. Methods of Scholarship From the Humanities and Philosophy 239
- 10. A Procedural Guide to Navigating the Dissertation Process 261
- 11. The Data Collection and Analysis Process 301
- 12. The Dissertation Writing Process 325
- 13. The Technical Aspects of Your Written Dissertation 347
- Completing a Professional Practice Dissertation
- A Guide for Doctoral Students and Faculty
- by
- Jerry Willis
- Marist College
- Deborah Inman
- Manhattanville College
- and
- Ron Valenti
- College of New Rochelle
- Information Age Publishing, Inc.
- Charlotte, North Carolina www.infoagepub.com
- Figure 1. 1. The degree structure of early universities.
- A Bit of History and Lore About Doctoral Programs and Dissertations
- From Plato's Academy to the University of Bologna
- Scholasticism and Medieval Universities
- The Doctorate in Early Universities
- Completing the Doctorate in Early Universities
- Wilhelm von Humboldt and the German University Revolution
- The "Problem" of the PhD as the Dominant Model for Doctoral Work
- Only Half of Those Admitted to Doctoral Programs Actually Graduate
- It Takes Too Long to Complete a Doctoral Program
- Doctoral Programs Do not Prepare Students for Future Jobs, Especially Professional Practice Jobs
- Present PhD Programs are Too Narrow
- PhD Programs No Longer Provide Close Mentoring and Support to Students
- PhD Programs Discourage Collaboration and Interdisciplinary Work
- Current Problems Are Particularly Crucial to Students Who Plan Professional Rather Than Research Careers
- Issues With the Dissertation
- Summary
- chapter 1
- Figure 2. 1. The traditional dissertation model.
- The Professional Practice Doctorate
- Family Characteristics of Professional Practice Doctorates
- The Case of the Psychology Doctorate
- Is the EdD a Professional Practice Doctorate?
- The Acceptance of Professional Practice Doctorates
- Professional Practice Capstone Experiences: Dissertation? Capstone Project? Portfolio? Or?
- What Distinguishes the PhD Research Dissertation From the PPD Dissertation
- Use of a Wider Range of Methodologies
- Options for Mentoring and Assessing PPD Dissertations
- The Doctorvater Model
- The Inclusive Committee Model
- A Collaborative Model
- Alternative Purposes for a PPD Dissertation
- Acceptable Formats for a PPD Dissertation
- The Five-Chapter Dissertation
- The Article Dissertation
- 1. Writing journal articles,
- 2. "Communicating with practitioners," and
- 3. "Writing for external funding."
- 4. Communicating with the public,
- 5. Writing to influence policy,
- 6. Creating training and educational materials, and
- 7. Writing to develop collaboration with groups such as patients, customers, clients, or parents.
- 1. The proposal that obtained funding for the project.
- 2. The collaboratively developed curriculum plan for the program.
- 3. Recruiting and support materials developed for parents including both print as well as video (e.g., a video of a presentation the student made at a parent's group, or a video clip of a television spot announcement encouraging participation in th...
- 4. An article on the evaluation of the project.
- An Emerging Option: Electronic Dissertations
- Portfolios, Capstones, and Projects: Alternatives to Dissertations and Exams
- 1. It is an alternative to preliminary written examination
- 2. It provides written documentation of student's understanding of major field (mastery of outcomes for community college leadership program)
- 3. It documents the student's capability for research (adapted from http://oregonstate.edu/education/programs/docs/ portfolio_guidelines.doc)
- Your First Dissertation Decision: Timing and Sequence
- The Serial Dissertation Dilemma
- When A Concurrent Approach is Possible
- An Even Better Option: An Integrative, Collaborative Dissertation/Capstone Project
- Summary
- chapter 2
- Figure 2. 2. An alternative approach for the professional practice dissertation.
- Figure 2. 3. The intellectual structure of a traditional dissertation about an applied issue.
- Figure 2. 4. A model for a professional practice dissertation.
- Figure 3. 1. Aspects of selecting a topic and purpose for your professional practice dissertation.
- Selecting Your Topic and Purpose
- Factors to Consider When Selecting Your Topic
- 1. Select a topic that interests you. Perhaps the most important aspect of selecting a dissertation topic is to pick something you will enjoy becoming intimately involved with. A dissertation calls for a significant investment of time and effort. If ...
- 2. Select a topic that interests others. Most professional practice dissertations are done in work settings and that means, at a minimum, you will need permission to do the study. That is the minimum
- the administration and staff in the setting will ...
- 3. Does the Topic Pass The Resume Test? One of the authors often tells his doctoral students to ask this question about their dissertation topic. "When I apply to that "ideal" job after I graduate, will my dissertation help move my application ...
- 4. Does the Topic Pass the Time and Effort Test? Doctoral students tend to be idealists, especially with regard to their dissertation topic. They want the dissertation to make a difference, a Big difference. That often means they propose, and are som...
- 5. Consider the Format and Topic Match. We strongly favor article dissertations when that is possible. Combining work on your dissertation with coursework and fieldwork makes sense. Will your topic work as an article dissertation that is done as part...
- 6. Is the Topic Worthy? A few years ago when one of the authors was looking at a lot of dissertations in the area of educational technology, he noticed that many students did a survey dissertation. Typically, they asked a group of teachers or teacher...
- 8. Make Your Research Topic Original-Has It Been Done Before? The prerequisite for finding a new research topic is to be informed because most things have been studied before. Staying on top of the current debates in your academic field puts you in...
- 7. Decide Whether Your Professional Practice Dissertation Should Be "Theory-Based" or "Theory-Informed. The dissertation guide at Nova Southeastern University that was mentioned above includes this definition of an applied dissertation:
- Paradigms, Problems, and Dissertation Committees
- What is the Purpose of Your Dissertation Research?
- Test A Theory and Develop Implications for Practice
- Evaluate the Universal Effectiveness of a Professional Practice
- Objective Description
- Evaluate the Local Effectiveness of a Professional Practice
- Develop a Solution to a Local Problem or Issue
- Hermeneutic (Verstehen) Understanding
- Storytelling and Narrative Inquiry
- Summary
- chapter 3
- Figure 3. 2. An example of the decisions about the dissertation topic and purpose a student in a DNP program might make.
- Figure 3. 3. An example of a topic and purpose for a professional practice dissertation in counseling psychology.
- Figure 3. 4. Example of a professional practice dissertation in educational leadership.
- Figure 4. 1. Gatfield and Alpert's (2002) managerial grid for doctoral supervision.
- Constructing Your Dissertation Team
- 1. someone with experience developing and/or designing, as well as evaluating, new innovations for practice be included on the committee, and
- 2. that at least one member of the committee be a practitioner who currently works in the field.
- Is There A Difference Between a "Research" PhD Dissertation and a Professional Practice Dissertation?
- Why Have A Committee?
- Reason 1. To Help You Finish a "Good" Dissertation.
- 1. A good dissertation is one that breaks new ground on the edge of professional practice about a significant problem. It is publishable in a major journal and is likely to be cited by the next generation of researchers studying this problem. Many do...
- 2. A good dissertation is one that successfully addresses a significant problem of professional practice in the local context. It can be publishable in a major journal but the emphasis is on solving a local problem rather than searching for universal...
- 3. A good dissertation is one that is relevant to my career goals, can be completed in a reasonable amount of time, and contributes to my overall preparation for the career path I have selected. The first definition of a "good" dissertation is mo...
- 4. A good dissertation is one that gives me an opportunity to serve an apprenticeship with a scholar-practitioner who is an expert in a critical area of professional practice research. Doctoral faculty vary considerably from program to program but mo...
- Reason 2: To Keep You Out of Trouble and Save You Time
- Reason 3: To Protect and Support You When Trouble Arrives
- Reason 4: To Speak on Your Behalf To Others
- Work The Committee and Chair Should Do
- Accessible and Available for Consultation
- Involvement in Planning and Adapting
- Writing and Editing Your Dissertation
- 1. Get advice and suggestions at least from your chair about the format and structure of each section of your dissertation.
- 2. Write a rough draft and get detailed editorial feedback from your chair and one other member of the committee (at a minimum). Make revisions based on the feedback and get feedback on the new version. Continue in this cycle until your chair feels n...
- 3. Once you have a decent draft of the dissertation, submit it to all members of your committee, schedule a meeting with each one individually, and during that meeting ask for feedback and suggestions. Hopefully, the committee member will have writte...
- 4. Make sure that when you get feedback on your writing, you cover three levels: (A) the technical aspects of whatever formatting style guide you use. Most professional practice doctoral programs use the American Psychological Association (APA) guide...
- 5. Finally, when your committee feels you, and your dissertation, are ready for the final oral defense, schedule the defense, print your dissertation, and distribute it to all the committee members well in advance of the data of the defense. Expect a...
- Supporting The Oral Defense
- 1. The committee asks everyone to leave the room except the committee members and agrees on the guidelines and format for the defense.
- 2. Everyone is welcomed back into the room, including the candidate and any guests. Then the candidate delivers a 10 to 15 minute summary of the dissertation, often supported by a PowerPoint presentation. Students often take much longer-as much as ...
- 3. Once the candidate completes the presentation, members of the committee ask questions and the candidate attempts to answer them. The question phase usually begins as a round robin where a committee member asks one or more questions, then passes th...
- 4. When the committee members have had all their questions answered, or they have run out of time or energy to ask additional questions, the questioning phase ends and the candidate as well as guests are again asked to leave the room. Once they are a...
- 5. Once a decision has been agreed upon, there will usually be a set of documents or cards to be signed that indicate the decision and whether each committee member approved it. Then the candidate and guests are called back and the committee congratu...
- 6. Two optional but not uncommon components of an oral defense are refreshments and a small post-defense party in the same room, and an opportunity for guests to ask questions. Neither of these are common, but in some departments the candidate or fri...
- How do you decide who you should ask to be on your committee?
- The Style of Interaction Between You, Your Chair, and the Committee
- Expectations in Research Supervision
- Table 4.1. A Questionnaire About the Relative Roles of Supervisor and Doctoral Student Developed at Flinders University in Australia
- Toward an Adaptable Supervisory Style
- Summary
- chapter 4
- Figure 5. 1. Sources of knowledge and perspective for a professional practice dissertation.
- Sources of Knowledge and Perspective
- What Warrants Our Attention?
- Scholarly Sources
- Professional Sources of Knowledge and Perspectives
- Professional Scholarship
- Colleagues
- Site Visits
- Stars, Experts, and Gurus
- Conferences
- Immersion in Reflective Professional Practice
- Communities of Practice
- Ways of Locating Relevant Sources
- The "Traditional" Knowledge Search Process
- Basic Versus Advanced Searches
- What Do You Do After Reading the Abstracts?
- Writing A Traditional Literature Review
- 1. The Problem of XXX. XXX can be an issue, a problem, a barrier, or a challenge that faces practitioners in a particular field. In this section you introduce XXX, show why it is something that warrants our attention, and why you have selected it as ...
- 2. Theoretical Frameworks. Introduce the major theoretical frameworks currently used to organize and guide thinking about your topic. Provide some historical perspective about how and why each of the major theories developed and show, briefly, how th...
- 3. Professional Practice Applications. This section of your literature review looks at XXX from the perspective of practice. What does the literature tell you about XXX and how it is being addressed in practice? Are there approaches or policies tied ...
- 4. Approaches to Research on the Topic. Although you will be citing and explaining research studies throughout the literature, this section should focus on the methods and procedures commonly used to study XXX. Discuss them in some detail and analyze...
- 5. What is Needed. The first four parts of your review should bring the reader to this section with some understanding and expectation of what you want to do in your dissertation. In this final section of the literature review, make your plans explic...
- The "New" Search for Knowledge and Perspective
- Full-Text Databases
- Online, Open Access Journals
- Accessible General Publications
- Google Scholar
- Google Books
- Internet Searches
- Search Engines and Metasearch Engines
- 1. A specially constructed database of the content of documents available on the Internet. (Some search engines only have World Wide Web sites in their databases
- others include other types of Internet resources as well.)
- 2. A user interface that lets you specify terms you want to look for on the Internet.
- An Overview of Some Popular Search Engines
- Google http://www.google.com/
- Bing http://www.bing.com/
- Yahoo Search Engine http://search.yahoo.com
- Search Engines Not Enough? Try Metasearch Engines
- Mamma http://www.mamma.com
- Ixquick http://www.ixquick.com/
- AskJeeves http://www.askjeeves.com http://www.ask.com/
- Proteus http://www.thrall.org/proteus.html
- Infocom http://www.info.com
- Surfwax http://www.surfwax.com
- Findspot http://www.findspot.com/
- Somewhere http://www.ekdahl.org/search.htm
- Advanced Search Straegies: The Legacy of George Boole
- Social Networking, Scholarship, and Professional Practice Dissertations
- Mailing lists, NewsGroups, Forums, Discussion Groups, .
- Finding Relevant Mailing Lists
- Some Suggestions for Using Lists
- Good and Poor Uses of Mailing Lists
- Newsgroups
- Using Web-Based Newsreaders
- Finding Relevant Newsgroups
- Threading Your Way Through Newsgroups
- Blogs
- Gateway or Portal Sites
- Collaborative Tools
- Forums, Conferences and Virtual Communities
- Video and Audio Conferencing
- Wikis, Google Docs, and Other Collaborative Writing Tools
- Using Course Management Systems for Collaboration: Moodle and Blackboard
- Chat Systems
- Brainstorming Programs: Another Way of Collaborating
- Summary
- chapter 5
- Figure 6. 3. Example of an ABA single subject design.
- Figure 6. 1. The seven families of scholarship that are most relevant to professional practice research and scholarship.
- Figure 6. 2. The main methods of Quantitative Research.
- Selecting The Methods for Your Dissertation
- An Overview of Methods of Research and Scholarship
- Literature Reviews and Syntheses
- Quantitative Research Methods
- Survey Research
- Relationship Research
- Experimental Research
- Single Subject Research
- ABA and ABAB Single Subject Designs
- Multiple Baseline Designs
- Summary
- chapter 6
- Figure 6. 4. Example of the results of a multiple baseline study.
- Figure 7. 1. The major families of qualitative research methods.
- Traditional Qualitative Research Methods
- Ethnography (Observation in the Real World)
- When Ethnographic Methods Are Appropriate, and Inappropriate
- Learning More About Ethnographic Methods
- Interviewing
- Group Interviews: Focus Groups and the Delphi Technique
- When The Delphi and Focus Group Techniques are Appropriate, and Inappropriate
- Historiography
- Appropriate and Inappropriate Uses of Historical Methods
- Sources of Additional Information About Historical Methods
- Case Study Methods
- Doing Case Study Research
- The Status of Case Study Research Today
- Additional Resources on Case Study Research
- Summary
- chapter 7
- Figure 8. 4. The relationship between the three forms of action research. Bold text indicates the emphasis of each type of action research.
- Emergent and Innovative Qualitative Research Methods for Professional Practice Dissertations
- Professional Practice Knowledge
- Creating and Disseminating Professional Practice Knowledge
- Participatory Action Research (PAR)
- Varieties of Action Research
- Participatory Action Research (PAR)
- Emancipatory Research
- Clinical Research
- Instructional Design as Research
- Professional Discourse
- Summary
- chapter 8
- Figure 8. 1. Emergent qualitative research methods of interest to professional practice dissertation students.
- Figure 8. 2. Kurt Lewin's plan for action research.
- Figure 8. 3. This representation emphasizes the nonlinear and recursive nature of action research.
- Figure 9. 2. Methods of philosophical inquiry that lend themselves to use in professional practice dissertations.
- Methods of Scholarship from the Humanities and Philosophy
- Methods of Scholarship from the Humanities
- Hermeneutic Inquiry
- Strands of Hermeneutic Research
- Critical and Interpretive Hermeneutics
- Literary Criticism and Literary Theory
- Narrative Inquiry
- Narrative as Method
- Poststructuralist Scholarship
- Modes of Philosophical Inquiry
- How Do We "Do" Philosophical Inquiry and Theoretical Scholarship?
- What About Rhetorical Inquiry?
- Summary
- chapter 9
- Figure 9. 1. Humanities methods of scholarship that may be useful in professional practice dissertation research.
- Table 9.1. Habermas' Types of Human Interests and the Associated Research Methods
- Figure 10. 1. Two types of dissertation proposals.
- Figure 10. 2. A linear sequential, step-by-step plan for doing a dissertation.
- A Procedural Guide to Navigating the Dissertation Process
- Early Decisions
- Your Team and the Dissertation Proposal
- When Do You Involve Your Dissertation Committee and Research Team?
- Writing the Proposal
- The Proposal Defense
- 1. Fail which means you will have to do the defense again. This is rare and in the several hundred proposal defenses we are familiar with at more than ten different institutions, we can only remember one that ended in a vote to fail the student.
- 2. Pass with Revisions means the committee has specified some changes that must be made to the plan of the dissertation but is approving your proposal. You can work on your dissertation but you must incorporate the changes recommended. This is the mo...
- 3. Pass is not as common as Pass with Revisions. It indicates the committee is happy with the proposal as is.
- When Do I "Start" The Dissertation Research?
- Will Your Process be Linear or NonLinear?
- Doing the Research: Some Practical Guidelines
- Legal and Ethical Considerations
- Navigating the Institutional Review Board Process
- 1. Research conducted in a school or other educational setting that involves normal and well accepted educational practices. You may, for example, be studying the impact of common teaching and learning methods in either regular or special education c...
- 2. Another exempt category is research that uses different types of standard educational tests as well as surveys, interviews, and observations. There are limits, however, on the exempt status of this category. You must complete the IRB process if yo...
- 3. A third type of study that is exempt is the collection or analysis of existing data such as documents, records, and pathological or diagnostic specimens. Again, however, there are restrictions on which studies are exempt. Such studies are exempt i...
- 4. The fourth type of exempt study is one that involves research or demonstration projects that are either approved by or conducted by department or agency heads. To be exempt these studies must evaluate or study (1) public benefit or service program...
- 5. The last type of exempt research is taste and food quality studies that involve consuming food. The restrictions are that the food must be wholesome and does not contain any additives, or wholesome food that does not contain any additives or conta...
- Starting the IRB Process
- Completing the IRB Request Forms
- Problems With IRBs and Professional Practice Research
- What To Do If Your Research Methods May be Unfamiliar to the IRB
- Dealing With Problems
- Example 1: Informed Consent is Withdrawn
- Example 2
- The Best Approach: Anticipate and Avoid
- Do You Need a Hard or Soft Research Plan?
- How Will Your Plan be Expressed?
- FlowCharting Software
- Brainstorming Software
- Project Management Software
- Summary
- chapter 10
- Table 9.1. Vanderbilt Format
- 1. "The problem, (hypo)thesis, and its significance [emphasis added].. At the minimum the proposal should map out a coherent line of inquiry.. Show that the projected inquiry is restricted enough to be manageable and large enough to be signific...
- 2. "Literature to which the project contributes. Place the inquiry in the context of existing research on the subject or problem.. This section should answer the questions: who has worked on related questions, what insights have they gained, and ...
- 3. "Resources. Show that the resources necessary to carry out the project are available here at Vanderbilt or set out your plan for accessing those resources.. This section should answer the question: where are the materials I need to do this res...
- 4. "Method and procedure. The student should indicate that the competencies necessary for carrying through the inquiry have been acquired and that the proposed method is adequate for the inquiry.. This section should answer the question: how will...
- 5. "Tentative chapter outline. This section should answer the question: what are the parts of my project and in what order will I write them for my first draft?"
- Figure 10. 3. A typical IRB approval and monitoring process for research.
- The Data Collection and Analysis Process
- Anticipating Data Needs
- Early Data
- Researcher Notebook
- Contemporary Researcher Reflections
- Contemporary Researcher Observations and Comments
- Contemporary Participant Reflections, Observations, and Comments
- Artifacts
- Data Storage Guidelines
- What Tools Will You Use to Organize Your Data?
- Ensuring That Your Data Is Accurate
- Create a coDEbook for your research
- Create Participant Data Files
- Ensure Data Integrity: Catch and Correct Errors
- Interpretation and Analysis of Your Data
- Decisions About Data Analysis Procedures
- Quantitative Data Analysis
- Qualitative Data Analysis: The Atomistic-Holistic Continuum
- The Atomistic-Holistic Continuum
- Summary
- chapter 11
- The Dissertation Writing Process
- How Do You "Write" a Dissertation? Keep Your Focus!
- Beware of Simple and Simplistic Advice
- Any "One-Size-Fits-All" Advice is Probably Wrong
- Writing Your Dissertation in 3 Weeks (or 3-Minutes a Day)
- Linear Plans Are Essential, Not!
- Some Useful Guidelines
- Keep the Audience in Mind
- Select an Appropriate Style
- Sterile Academic Style
- Comfortable Academic Style
- Journalistic Style
- Narrative Inquiry and Storytelling
- Persuasive Style
- Philosophical Inquiry
- Develop Your Own Writing Style
- Write, Get Feedback, Write, Get Feedback
- Know When To Stop
- Get a Real Editor! Pay for Quality!
- Remember, Finishing is the Immediate Goal!
- The Defense: Preparation and Particpation
- AD-After the Dissertation
- Therapy, Recovery, and Freudian Repression of the Memory
- Follow-Up Work
- Disseminating Your Research
- The Dissertation
- Traditional Presentations
- New Media Presentations
- Publishing Papers From Your Dissertation
- 1. A review of the literature on the topic that is written for a particular audience such as researchers studying the new method or treatment or practitioners trying to make decisions in professional practice.
- 2. A detailed description of the treatment or method with information on how it can be implemented, problems and issues that will probably need to be addressed, and the types of support and training needed to support a successful implementation. Such...
- 3. A paper on the evaluation of the treatment or method. In such a paper the focus is on the details of the research method, the data analysis, and the interpretation of the results as well as a discussion of the implications of the study. Such a pap...
- Social Networks and Professonal Communities
- Summary
- chapter 12
- The Technical Aspects of Your Written Dissertation
- Selecting a Writing Platform: Microsoft Word and Its Alternatives
- Collaborative Editing: Word's Track Changes Command
- Alternatives to Word
- The Structure of the Dissertation
- Traditional and Professional Practice Five-Chapter Models
- 1. The Problem of XXX. Provides an overview of the professional practice problem (represented by "XXX") being addressed, and summarizes your dissertation work including the results. This chapter is like an executive summary.
- 2. The Context of Research and Practice. Introduces readers to the context where you did your dissertation. Provides enough detail for readers to understand the setting, its history, the groups and individuals who were most important to the study, an...
- 3. The Action Research Process. Introduces and justifies the particular method of action research you used in your dissertation.
- 4. The Search for Possible Solutions to XXX. In this chapter you describe what happened in the cycles of action research, including the results as judged by the participants. This chapter is often written as a narrative-a story told about each phas...
- 5. A Reflective Analysis of the Project. In this chapter you reflect on what you learned about the problem and the process. Did the action research project succeed? How? Why? Did different stakeholder groups view the process, and the outcomes, differ...
- TAD-The Three Article Format Dissertation
- 1. Introduction: About five pages that introduce the three articles and explain how they relate to each other.
- 2. Article 1.
- 3. Article 2.
- 4. Article 3.
- 5. Conclusion: Five to 10 pages that tie the articles together, discuss the implications of the research presented in the articles, and suggest a line of exploration and study the dissertation author might pursue after graduation that is related to t...
- 1. Introduction: Describes the professional practice problem and provides an overview/introduction to each article in the dissertation. This can be done in about five pages.
- 2. Article 1. XXX: Linking A Persistent Problem to Potential Solutions. This paper could be an analysis of the professional practice problem selected by the doctoral student for in depth study. The paper could be written originally for a doctoral cou...
- 3. Article 2: An Action Research Study of XXX in a Mental Health Center. The second paper could be an article that describes the action research project that focused on developing and trying out solutions to the professional practice problem in a par...
- 4. Article 3: A Manual of Practice: Addressing the Problem of XXX. Suppose the third paper is a manual for practitioners that was created during the action research project to help practitioners implement a potential solution to XXX. If that solution...
- 5. Conclusion: In this final section of the dissertation the three papers would be discussed in terms of their contribution to the literature on the XXX professional practice problem as well as how to approach problems of professional practice using ...
- Formatting the Article Dissertation
- Formatting Details
- Margins and Gutters
- Typography: Fonts, Points, and Leading
- Paragraph Formatting
- Figures and Illustrations
- What About Video and Animation?
- Assembling the Dissertation: Manual or Automatic?
- Formatting the Three Major Sections of Your Dissertation
- Front Matter: Title Page, Second Title Page, TOC, Table List, Figure List, Preface, Dedication
- Main Body
- Back Matter: Author Bio, Index, Appendices
- Binding, Copyright, and Submission to ProQuest and Other Websites
- Dissemination: Free Access or Restricted?
- chapter 13
- references
- About the Authors
- Index
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