The portable dissertation advisor / / Miles T. Bryant

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910480875203321
• Autore: Bryant Miles Taft
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Thousand Oaks, California : , : Corwin Press, , 2004; ©2004
• ISBN: 1-4833-6091-1; 1-4833-6309-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (209 p.)
• Disciplina: 378.242
• Soggetti: Doctor of education degree; Dissertations, Academic; Report writing; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""About the Author""; ""Chapter 1 - First Steps toward Your Dissertation""; ""How to Use This Book""; ""Dissertation Conventions""; ""The Dissertation Process""; ""Finding a Topic""; ""Finding a Theory""; ""Finding a Research Method""; ""Finding a Dissertation Support Group""; ""The Doctoral Dissertation in Historical Perspective""; ""Chapter 2 - The Introductory Sections""; ""The Outline of a Proposal""; ""The First Chapter""; ""Summary""; ""Chapter 3 - The Literature Review""; ""Quantitative and Qualitative Literature Reviews""; ""Literature Review""""Beginning a Literature Review""; ""Types of Research Material""; ""Conduct of the Review""; ""How to Use a Research Library""; ""Summary""; ""Chapter 4 - The Research Design""; ""Exploratory and Descriptive Studies""; ""Quantitative Studies""; ""Qualitative Studies""; ""Contingency Plans: Changing the Research Design Plan""; ""Some Common Design Problems""; ""Getting Good Data""; ""Objectivity and Bias""; ""The Institutional Review Board""; ""Summary""; ""Chapter 5 - The Report of Your Findings""; ""Conventions Guiding the Reporting of Data""; ""Reminder of the Research Focus""""Objective Presentation""; ; ""Explication of Research Process""; ""Data Reduction""; ""Interactions with Your Advisor during This Phase""; ""Organization of Findings""; ""Reporting Data in Tables, Charts, and Graphs""; ""First-Person Voice""; ""Writing to Discover in Chapters Four and Five""; ""Redundancy""; ""Summary of Findings""; ""Chapter 6 - The Concluding Section""; ""A Discussion of Your Findings""; ""An Assessment of the Significance of Your Findings""; ""A List of Recommendations for Practice or for Future Research""; ""Summary""; ""Chapter 7 - Sage Advice on Navigating the Dissertation Process""""Understanding the Supervisory Committee""; ""Luminaries""; ""The Proposal Meeting""; ""The Defense""; ""Issues with Completion""; ""Health Issues""; ""Giving up/Sticking it out/Time out""; ""Publishing from Your Dissertation""; ""Proofreading""; ""Acknowledgment Page""; ""Attending Graduation""; ""The Doctoral Hood and Gown""; ""Final Words""; ""Appendix A: Annotated Bibliography of Useful Books""; ""Appendix B: Bibliography of Helpful Dissertations""; ""Appendix C: Assessment Instrument for Evaluating Your Study""; ""Appendix D: Activities for Dissertation Support Groups""""References""; ""Index""
• Sommario/riassunto: Written for the doctoral graduate student, this book gives you the vital support to write your dissertation when you can't be on campus full-time!