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Autore: |
Bryant Miles Taft
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Titolo: |
The portable dissertation advisor / / Miles T. Bryant
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Pubblicazione: | Thousand Oaks, California : , : Corwin Press, , 2004 |
©2004 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (209 p.) |
Disciplina: | 378.242 |
Soggetto topico: | Doctor of education degree |
Dissertations, Academic | |
Report writing | |
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! |
Titolo autorizzato: | The portable dissertation advisor ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-4833-6091-1 |
1-4833-6309-0 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910829064303321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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