The Dissertation Journey
A Practical and Comprehensive Guide to Planning, Writing, and Defending Your Dissertation
This second edition of The Dissertation Journey offers new and updated features, including:
- A chapter on ethical considerations
- Expanded coverage of digital data collection and using the Internet for research
- More detailed information on conducting the literature review
- A discussion of how to develop a theoretical or conceptual framework
With graphics, checklists, inspirational quotes, illustrations, and sample forms, this valuable resource is your essential guidebook to preparing, writing, and defending your dissertation.
Supportive text for students which comfortably guides them by answering or addressing common concerns and queries.
This is the best/most suitable text for our doctoral in education program.
Excellent resource for students throughout their doctoral courses.
Excellent book for 1st dissertation study
Great advice for students; easy to read -- an excellent resource
This is an accessible read which aims to translate the mammoth task of successfully achieving a Doctorate into practical steps by offering succinct advice and illustrating workable strategies. UK readers need to be mindful that this is written from a US perspective; however this is somewhat helpful as it enables an opportunity for contrast and comparison.
This fills a lot of the research gaps, for example, the differences between a conceptual framework and a theoretical framework.
We felt that the current text we adopted is a better text for our students at this time. This book is also published by Corwin Press, "Writing a Successful Thesis or Dissertation" by Lunenburg & Irby
This book is a great book especially for the graduate or post graduate level, but this is a little too advanced for level 5 /4 although it will be useful for lecturers teaching.
A practical, structured and helpful guide for postgraduate students embarking on a dissertation.
This updated and expanded edition includes new information vital to navigating the dissertation process as well as an expansion of current topics for greater clarity and utility. New features include a discussion of the central ethical issues involved in conducting research relative to human rights, data collection, data analysis and interpretation, respect for the research site, writing, and disseminating the research. The book also contains new information about the process, importance, and purpose of developing a theoretical or conceptual framework. It includes responses to questions such as, "What is a conceptual or theoretical framework?", "How does a conceptual framework differ from a theoretical framework?", "Why do you need a conceptual/theoretical framework? ", and "How do you find a conceptual or theoretical framework?" Also provided are examples from dissertations for greater understanding.
Completely revised and updated chapters on using technology and reviewing the literature have been added. Because more and more researchers use the Internet and technology for all phases of dissertation writing, the author has incorporated new Web-based technologies, including new information about search engines, evaluating web sites, and social networking on the Web. A completely revised and expanded chapter on reviewing the literature has been added in which the author expanded the steps in conducting a literature review from four to eight and added considerably more detail to the process. An updated listing of secondary sources and style manuals widely used in the social sciences has been incorporated, and a thorough update of all web sites and references, including new editions of works, has been made as well.