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Surviving Your Dissertation: A Comprehensive Guide to Content and Process

by Kjell Erik Rudestam (Editor), Dr. Rae R. Newton (Editor)

ISBN-10: 9781412916790
ISBN-10: 1-4129-1679-8
ISBN-13: 9781412916790
ISBN-13: 978-1-4129-1679-0
Paperback
2007-04-05
Sage Publications, Inc


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"The book is an excellent addition to those already available in the area and provides a very practical guide that students can pick up and use for reference throughout their dissertation process."
-ESCalate (a Higher Education Academy Network publication)

Like the previous editions of this bestselling text, Surviving Your Dissertation: A Comprehensive Guide to Content and Process, Third Edition offers readers guidance that other dissertation guides often miss, from ways to improve one's writing, to identifying one's learning preferences, to dealing with emotional blocks. Using examples from a wide range of disciplines, the authors give readers 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. The entire text has been updated and fresh examples have been added to it. This edition features an up-to-the-minute discussion of online research and the use of software packages. The authors have expanded their coverage of qualitative work, and added information about the use of mixed methods to the book. These updates and more make the Third Edition of Surviving Your Dissertation a must have resource for graduate students.

Key Features of the Third Edition:
  • Walks readers through the dissertation process as an ideal mentor would.
  • Devotes more attention to qualitative work, and touches upon mixed methods.
  • Discusses online library resources and completing one’s dissertation via the Internet.
  • Features new material on the use of graphics.
  • Includes information about informed consent forms.



Reviews


Good Information for Doctoral Students
I discovered a previous edition of this book when I was a Ph.D. student, which was not easy to do given how few good books there are on the subject, and I found it to be very helpful; particularly the chapters on reviewing the literature in a manner appropriate to your dissertation topic.

I used these ideas when I was crafting my own dissertation and they helped me to write a much more focused and professional literature review than if I had not read the book.

I recommend this book to any doctoral student who wants to improve the odds of "surviving" the dissertation process and earning that coveted doctoral degree.

Robert E. Levasseur, Ph.D., author of "Student to Scholar: The Guide for Doctoral Students"

Surviving Your Dissertation: A Comprehensive Guide to content and Process
This book is the beginning of the long journey of writing my dissertation. I have found renewed hope in completing this task of scholarly writing on time.
The road map of this guide will enhance my abilites to know what I'm doing & how to do it the right way.

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...


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