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Finish your dissertation, don't let it finish you! /
An all-inclusive, practical guide to help you design, conduct, and finish your academic dissertation-with minimal drama Sharing the secrets for successfully navigating through the dissertation and thesis process while maintaining your sanity, Finish Your Dissertation, Don't Let It Finish You! p...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken, New Jersey :
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,
[2014]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Finish Your Dissertation, Don't Let It Finish You!; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; The Price of Your Study; Passion; Rigor; Integrity; Creativity; Energy; Pre-Study Prep; Pre-Study To-Do Checklist; Chapter 1: The Secret Handshake; The Team That Will Make or Break You: The Committee; Typical Dissertation Committee Structure; The Chairperson; General Committee Members; "Emily Post" for Academic Research; Top 10 Rules for Maintaining Emotional and Social Intelligence; Honesty Really Is the Best Policy; Checklist for Maintaining Integrity.
- Chapter 2: Breaking Ground on Your StudyThe Intrinsically Satisfying Study Topic; Breaking Ground Can Be Easier Than You Think; The Quick and Dirty About Variables; Dependent Variables; Independent Variables; Levels Within the Variables; Variable Definitions; This Is Exactly What I Want to Know: Ask Solid Research Questions; Examples of Strong Research Question Stems; Examples of Bad Research Questions; Examples of Good Research Questions; This Is What I Think About What I Want to Know: Confident Hypotheses; Examples of Research Questions and Hypotheses; Chapter 3: Anatomy of a Dissertation.
- What Comes Before the Five ChaptersWhat Follows the Five Chapters; Additional Helpful Resources; Chapter 4: Rolling Out the Red Carpet for Your Study: The Strong Introduction; Introduction (What Is Going On Here?); Rationale (So What Makes This Topic Important?); Purpose of Study (Now What Is Going to Be Done About It?); Chapter 5: Literature Review Made Simple; How to Do an Exemplary Lit Review; Give the Author Proper Credit; Juice Your Sources for the Information You Need; Threats to Internal and External Validity; Internal Validity; External Validity; Empirical Juicer; Theoretical Juicer.
- Additional Helpful Resou RcesChapter 6: Data Scavenger Hunt: Methodology; What Type of Interior (Research) Design Goes With Those Foundational Research Questions?; Core Nuts and Bolts of Research Design; The People Helping You Do It: The Participant Sample; Study Props: Instruments and Materials; Qualitative, Quantitative, or Mixed Methods?; Construct Validity; Go Get It: Study Procedure; What Type of Detail Needs to Be in the Procedure?; Additional Helpful Resources; Chapter 7: The Institutional Review Board (IRB); The IRB Application Process.
- The IRB Four: Voluntary, Anonymity, Confidentiality, and TransparencySolid Consent Forms; IRB Survival Skills; Chapter 8: Making Sense of the Data Collection Scavenger Hunt: Results; Data Speak; What Do I Do With These Numbers?; What Do I Do With the Words?; Tips for Conducting a Content Analysis; Additional Helpful Resources; Chapter 9: I Am Listening, Data: Discussion; Introduction; Interpretation of Findings for Research Questions and Hypotheses and Additional Analyses: What?; Limitations; Implications for Theory and Practice: So What?; Future Research: Now What?; Conclusion.