Finish your dissertation, don't let It finish you! / / Joanne Broder Sumerson |
Autore | Sumerson Joanne Broder |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken, New Jersey : , : Wiley, , [2014] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (210 p.) |
Disciplina | 808.066378 |
Soggetto topico |
Academic writing
Dissertations, Academic |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-118-41635-X
1-118-41925-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Finish Your Dissertation, Don't Let It Finish You!; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; The Price of Your Study; Passion; Rigor; Integrity; Creativity; Energy; Pre-Study Prep; Pre-Study To-Do Checklist; Chapter 1: The Secret Handshake; The Team That Will Make or Break You: The Committee; Typical Dissertation Committee Structure; The Chairperson; General Committee Members; "Emily Post" for Academic Research; Top 10 Rules for Maintaining Emotional and Social Intelligence; Honesty Really Is the Best Policy; Checklist for Maintaining Integrity
Chapter 2: Breaking Ground on Your Study The Intrinsically Satisfying Study Topic; Breaking Ground Can Be Easier Than You Think; The Quick and Dirty About Variables; Dependent Variables; Independent Variables; Levels Within the Variables; Variable Definitions; This Is Exactly What I Want to Know: Ask Solid Research Questions; Examples of Strong Research Question Stems; Examples of Bad Research Questions; Examples of Good Research Questions; This Is What I Think About What I Want to Know: Confident Hypotheses; Examples of Research Questions and Hypotheses; Chapter 3: Anatomy of a Dissertation What Comes Before the Five Chapters What Follows the Five Chapters; Additional Helpful Resources; Chapter 4: Rolling Out the Red Carpet for Your Study: The Strong Introduction; Introduction (What Is Going On Here?); Rationale (So What Makes This Topic Important?); Purpose of Study (Now What Is Going to Be Done About It?); Chapter 5: Literature Review Made Simple; How to Do an Exemplary Lit Review; Give the Author Proper Credit; Juice Your Sources for the Information You Need; Threats to Internal and External Validity; Internal Validity; External Validity; Empirical Juicer; Theoretical Juicer Additional Helpful Resources Chapter 6: Data Scavenger Hunt: Methodology; What Type of Interior (Research) Design Goes With Those Foundational Research Questions?; Core Nuts and Bolts of Research Design; The People Helping You Do It: The Participant Sample; Study Props: Instruments and Materials; Qualitative, Quantitative, or Mixed Methods?; Construct Validity; Go Get It: Study Procedure; What Type of Detail Needs to Be in the Procedure?; Additional Helpful Resources; Chapter 7: The Institutional Review Board (IRB); The IRB Application Process The IRB Four: Voluntary, Anonymity, Confidentiality, and Transparency Solid Consent Forms; IRB Survival Skills; Chapter 8: Making Sense of the Data Collection Scavenger Hunt: Results; Data Speak; What Do I Do With These Numbers?; What Do I Do With the Words?; Tips for Conducting a Content Analysis; Additional Helpful Resources; Chapter 9: I Am Listening, Data: Discussion; Introduction; Interpretation of Findings for Research Questions and Hypotheses and Additional Analyses: What?; Limitations; Implications for Theory and Practice: So What?; Future Research: Now What?; Conclusion Chapter 10: Your Data's Next Chapter After the Dissertation Write-Up and Graduation |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910453734003321 |
Sumerson Joanne Broder
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Hoboken, New Jersey : , : Wiley, , [2014] | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Finish your dissertation, don't let It finish you! / / Joanne Broder Sumerson |
Autore | Sumerson Joanne Broder |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken, New Jersey : , : Wiley, , [2014] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (203 pages) |
Disciplina | 808.066378 |
Soggetto topico |
Academic writing
Dissertations, Academic |
ISBN |
1-118-41635-X
1-118-41925-1 |
Classificazione |
836.5
377.5 808.06/6378 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910795965203321 |
Sumerson Joanne Broder
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Hoboken, New Jersey : , : Wiley, , [2014] | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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