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Secrets for a successful dissertation / Jacqueline Fitzpatrick, Jan Secrist, Debra J. Wright.

By: Fitzpatrick, Jacqueline.
Contributor(s): Secrist, Jan | Wright, Debra J.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, c1998Description: xvi, 184 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0761912509 (cloth : acidfree paper); 9780761912507; 0761912517 (pbk. : acid-free paper); 9780761912514.Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic | Research -- Methodology | Study & learning skills: general | Language learning: writing skills | LiteratureDDC classification: 808.02 FIT
Contents:
Writing the doctoral proposal. -- Choosing a methodology. -- Selecting committee members. -- Surviving the human subjects committee. -- Collecting data. -- Developing a support group-- Getting organized. -- Using technology. -- Defending the dissertation. -- Avoiding sudden stops. Horror stories 1-10. Emergency appendectomies.
Summary: This discussion of the dissertation process takes the student from the doctoral proposal to the formal defence of the dissertation.
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General lending MTU Kerry North Campus Library First Floor Main 808.02 FIT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Checked out 18/10/2021 38888000034359
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Practical, comprehensive, and readable, Secrets for a Successful Dissertation is designed for doctoral candidates at or near the beginning of the dissertation stages of their academic programs. Combining humor with actual student stories, Secrets offers the doctoral candidate a poignant and motivational guide to assist in hurtling the perils of each dissertation phase. Each chapter offers a view of the dissertation process that is beyond the academic and addresses the emotional and mental stresses that often accompany the process itself. Secrets for a Successful Dissertation is meant to encourage each doctoral candidate toward beating the overwhelming odds of "ABD-dom." Doctoral candidates will find Secrets a book that provides a sense of reality and a "road map" with helpful hints not often told to students by any faculty.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-177) and index.

Writing the doctoral proposal. -- Choosing a methodology. -- Selecting committee members. -- Surviving the human subjects committee. -- Collecting data. -- Developing a support group-- Getting organized. -- Using technology. -- Defending the dissertation. -- Avoiding sudden stops. Horror stories 1-10. Emergency appendectomies.

This discussion of the dissertation process takes the student from the doctoral proposal to the formal defence of the dissertation.