Surviving your dissertation : a comprehensive guide to content and process

Main Author: RUDESTAM
Other Authors: Newton,
Format: Book
Published: Newbury Park: Sage Pub., 2007.
Edition:3rd ed.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Getting started
  • The research process
  • Selecting a suitable topic
  • Methods of inquiry : quantitative and qualitative approaches
  • Working with content : the dissertation chapters
  • Literature review and statement of the problem
  • The method chapter : describing your research plan
  • Presenting the results of quantitative studies
  • Presenting the results of qualitative studies
  • Discussion
  • Working with process : what you need to know to make the dissertation easier
  • Overcoming barriers : becoming an expert while controlling your own destiny
  • Writing
  • How to complete your dissertation using online data access and collection
  • Guidelines for the presentation of numbers in the dissertation
  • Informed consent and other ethical concerns
  • References
  • Name index
  • Subject index