Surviving Your Dissertation: A Comprehensive Guide to Content and Process by Kjell Erik Rudestam - 0761919619 - Compare Discount Book Prices & Save up to 90%

Written from the perspective of an ideal mentor, the authors provide guidance that other books often miss from ways to improve your writing to identifying your learning style and dealing with emotional blocks. Using examples from a wide range of disciplines, they a supply expert advice on the entire dissertation process: selecting a suitable topic; conducting a literature review; managing data overload; building an argument; presenting the material, data, and results; and, working with faculty committees.

New to this Edition:

The use of the internet as a source of reference material and as a tool for data collection methods
Greatly expanded coverage of writing the qualitatively based dissertation from methods to writing up the results (including the use of software packages for qualitative analysis)
Detailed coverage of presenting the results, including recent challenges to null hypothesis significance testing
Tables showing Web addresses (URLs) for quantitative and qualitative software as well as numerous other sources of information for the dissertation student

		Surviving Your Dissertation: A Comprehensive Guide to Content and Process by Kjell Erik Rudestam, Rae R. Newton ISBN-10: 0761919619 ISBN-10: 0-7619-1961-9 ISBN-13: 9780761919612 ISBN-13: 978-0-7619-1961-2 Hardcover 2000-10-18 Sage Publications, Inc Find Lowest Price
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Product Description Written from the perspective of an ideal mentor, the authors provide guidance that other books often miss from ways to improve your writing to identifying your learning style and dealing with emotional blocks. Using examples from a wide range of disciplines, they a supply expert advice on the entire dissertation process: selecting a suitable topic; conducting a literature review; managing data overload; building an argument; presenting the material, data, and results; and, working with faculty committees. New to this Edition: The use of the internet as a source of reference material and as a tool for data collection methods Greatly expanded coverage of writing the qualitatively based dissertation from methods to writing up the results (including the use of software packages for qualitative analysis) Detailed coverage of presenting the results, including recent challenges to null hypothesis significance testing Tables showing Web addresses (URLs) for quantitative and qualitative software as well as numerous other sources of information for the dissertation student
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designed mainly for social science ABDs I am going to see what could be made relevant to my research in English, but it was frustrating to see that it is so geared towards social scientists. The book has every right to focus on a particular type of graduate student (however it should be noted, I think), but since humanities grads are seen as fluffy, redundant and not "fact" finders, this book is not comforting for me to read. It re-emphasizes empirical evidence and thus continues to suggest (by not mentioning them)that humanities dissertations do not "prove" anything. While my dissertation will be organized around a "problem" of a certain kind, it is not something that can be tested or measured in the same ways as a social scientist's research. This makes it even more challenging to specifically define and finish. The book still looks well-written and addresses some areas that should be helpful if only mentally.
Surviving Your Dissertation This book gives practical and reassuring advice on how to survive the thesis or dissertation process. A must have book for all students!!!
Blue Book Every so often a blue book comes along that really rocks your world and makes life so much easier. Life just makes more sense... Well, this is surely a blue book...
A good guide for the dissertation writing process This book was recommended by my dissertation chair (which meant I HAD to buy it). Once I got it and read through it, I found it to be surprisingly helpful. I just got the book yesterday and I have already filled the margins with notes and post-its. It is a good resource to have and am glad I got it at the beginning stages of the dissertation writing process.
Excellent resource! This book serves as an excellent resource. The style is clear and the book is well structured. Offers very helpful advice.