Surviving Your Dissertation
eBook - PDF

Surviving Your Dissertation

A Comprehensive Guide to Content and Process

  1. 376 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Surviving Your Dissertation

A Comprehensive Guide to Content and Process

About this book

Perfect for graduate students as well as behavioral and social scientists who supervise and conduct research!

In the fully updated Fourth Edition of their best-selling guide, Surviving Your Dissertation, Kjell Erik Rudestam and Rae R. Newton answer questions concerning every stage of the dissertation process, including

  • selecting a suitable topic,
  • conducting a literature review,
  • developing a research question,
  • understanding the role of theory,
  • selecting an appropriate methodology and research design,
  • analyzing data, and
  • interpreting and presenting results.

In addition, this must-have guide covers topics that other dissertation guides often miss, such as the many types of quantitative and qualitative research models available, the principles of good scholarly writing, how to work with committees, how to meet IRB and ethical standards, and how to overcome task and emotional blocks. With plenty of current examples, the new edition features an expanded discussion of online research, data collection and analysis, and the use of data archives, as well as expanded coverage of qualitative methods and added information on mixed methods.

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Table of contents

  1. SURVIVING YOUR DISSERTATION-FRONT COVER
  2. SURVIVING YOUR DISSERTATION
  3. CONTENTS
  4. PREFACE
  5. ABOUT THE AUTHORS
  6. PART I: GETTING STARTED
  7. CHAPTER 1: THE RESEARCH PROCESS
  8. CHAPTER 2: SELECTING A SUITABLE TOPIC
  9. CHAPTER 3: METHODS OF INQUIRY: QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE APPROACHES
  10. PART II: WORKING WITH CONTENT: THE DISSERTATION CHAPTERS
  11. CHAPTER 4: LITERATURE REVIEW AND STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
  12. CHAPTER 5: THE METHOD CHAPTER: DESCRIBING YOUR RESEARCH PLAN
  13. CHAPTER 6: PRESENTING THE RESULTS OF QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH
  14. CHAPTER 7: PRESENTING THE RESULTS OF QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
  15. CHAPTER 8: DISCUSSION
  16. PART III: WORKING WITH PROCESS: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TO MAKE THE DISSERTATION EASIER
  17. CHAPTER 9: OVERCOMING BARRIERS: BECOMING AN EXPERT WHILE CONTROLLING YOUR OWN DESTINY
  18. CHAPTER 10: WRITING
  19. CHAPTER 11: HOW TO COMPLETE YOUR DISSERTATION USING ONLINE DATA ACCESS AND COLLECTION
  20. CHAPTER 12: GUIDELINES FOR THE PRESENTATION OF NUMBERS IN THE DISSERTATION
  21. CHAPTER 13: INFORMED CONSENT AND OTHER ETHICAL CONCERNS
  22. REFERENCES
  23. NAME INDEX
  24. SUBJECT INDEX