Completing Your Doctoral Dissertation Master S Thesis In Two Semesters Or Less

Author : Evelyn Hunt Ogden
Publisher : R&L Education
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1997-07-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781461648444

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Completing Your Doctoral Dissertation/Master's Thesis in Two Semesters or Less by Evelyn Hunt Ogden Pdf

A long-term bestseller, this book is a pragmatic step-by-step guide to completing you dissertation or thesis during two semesters, in fifty workdays or less. It covers advisor and topic selection, proposal development, data collection and organization, available assistance, writing, and defense. The author demystifies the process and provides you with essential guidance through the rites of passage that are an integral part of completing your degree.

Author : Evelyn Hunt Ogden
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Education
ISBN : 0742552896

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Complete Your Dissertation Or Thesis in Two Semesters Or Less by Evelyn Hunt Ogden Pdf

This newly updated guide describes how to effectively and efficiently manage the dissertation or thesis process in two semesters or less. Written for doctoral and master's degree students enrolled in on-campus programs and students pursuing accelerated and online-based degree programs, this book demystifies the seemingly daunting process. From choosing a topic and advisor, to efficient researching and the actual writing and defense, Complete Your Dissertation or Thesis in Two Semesters or Less provides students with all the information needed to conquer this academic experience. Updates to this edition include: -An update to the length of graduate studies -Technological advantages now available to graduate students

Author : Evelyn Hunt Ogden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Dissertations, Academic
ISBN : OCLC:1259487081

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Completing Your Doctoral Dissertation Or Master's Thesis in Two Semesters Or Less by Evelyn Hunt Ogden Pdf

Author : Sonja K. Foss
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781442246157

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Destination Dissertation by Sonja K. Foss Pdf

Your dissertation is not a hurdle to jump or a battle to fight; as this handbook makes clear, your dissertation is the first of many destinations on the path of your professional career. Destination Dissertation guides you to the successful completion of your dissertation by framing the process as a stimulating and exciting trip—one that can be completed in fewer than nine months and by following twenty-nine specific steps. Sonja Foss and William Waters—your guides on this trip—explain concrete and efficient processes for completing the parts of the dissertation that tend to cause the most delays: conceptualizing a topic, developing a pre-proposal, writing a literature review, writing a proposal, collecting and analyzing data, and writing the last chapter. This guidebook is crafted for use by students in all disciplines and for both quantitative and qualitative dissertations, and incorporates a wealth of real-life examples from every step of the journey.

Author : Rita S. Brause
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135711504

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Writing Your Doctoral Dissertation by Rita S. Brause Pdf

Increasing numbers of adults are enroling in doctoral programmes, but their earlier college lives often do not prepare them for the rules of the academic game. Many have no idea what a dissertation looks like, how it gets that way, or what options are available to them. This book is a practical guide for students who need help in progressing from the decision to write a dissertation to the planning, writing and defending of it. It includes samples of proposals and dissertations that have been accepted and data drawn from a number of sources, including focus groups with doctoral students and graduates and responses to an open-ended questionnaire from doctoral students across the United States.

Author : Ian Smith,Mark Stephan Felix
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-20
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781527538764

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A Practical Guide to Dissertation and Thesis Writing by Ian Smith,Mark Stephan Felix Pdf

This book provides a step-by-step guide to writing the different chapters of a PhD dissertation, which will benefit aspiring, beginner and mid-track PhD students and candidates in the Social Sciences. Based on the authors’ combined experience of working with both Masters and PhD students through the dissertation writing process, it offers helpful writing guidelines, from the conceptualization and problematization of the dissertation through to the literature review, methodological issues, writing up results and, finally, to the discussion, conclusions and abstract writing process. With chapters dedicated to offering guidelines, suggestions and pitfalls to watch out for, this book will assist PhD students and candidates in the fields of the various Social Sciences with exercises and pointers on successfully navigating the writing of a PhD dissertation. It takes the PhD student in the Social Sciences through the maze of writing a dissertation, and provides a step-by-step train of thought throughout the entire writing process.

Author : Barbara Kamler,Pat Thomson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317802129

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Helping Doctoral Students Write by Barbara Kamler,Pat Thomson Pdf

Helping Doctoral Students Write offers a proven approach to effective doctoral writing. By treating research as writing and writing as research, the authors offer pedagogical strategies for doctoral supervisors that will assist the production of well-argued and lively dissertations. It is clear that many doctoral candidates find research writing complicated and difficult, but the advice they receive often glosses over the complexities of writing and/or locates the problem in the writer. Kamler and Thomson provide a highly effective framework for scholarly work that is located in personal, institutional and cultural contexts. The pedagogical approach developed in the book is based on the notion of writing as a social practice. This approach allows supervisors to think of doctoral writers as novices who need to learn new ways with words as they enter the discursive practices of scholarly communities. This involves learning sophisticated writing practices with specific sets of conventions and textual characteristics. The authors offer supervisors practical advice on helping with commonly encountered writing tasks such as the proposal, the journal abstract, the literature review and constructing the dissertation argument. The first edition of this book has helped many academics and thousands of research students produce better written material. Now fully updated the second edition includes: Examples from a broader range of academic disciplines A new chapter on writing from the thesis for peer reviewed journals More advice on reading and note taking, performance and conferences, Further information on developing a personal academic writing style, and Advice on the use of social media (blogs, tweets and wikis) to create trans-disciplinary and trans-national networks and conversations. Their discussion of the complexities of forming a scholarly identity is illustrated throughout by stories and writings of actual doctoral students. In conclusion, they present a persuasive and proven argument that universities must move away from simply auditing supervision to supporting the development of scholarly research communities. Any supervisor keen to help their students develop as academics will find the ideas and practical solutions presented in this book fascinating and insightful reading.

Author : Bradley Axelrod,James Windell
Publisher : R&L Education
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781610488686

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Dissertation Solutions by Bradley Axelrod,James Windell Pdf

Dissertation Solutions provides graduate students with the basic tools and skills to help them navigate the whole process with minimal damage, making the whole process of planning, researching, and writing more manageable. This thorough, but concise guide will help even the most naïve graduate student become experts in navigating and surviving their graduate experiences.

Author : Garry Anderson,Nancy Arsenault
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2005-06-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135708207

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Fundamentals of Educational Research by Garry Anderson,Nancy Arsenault Pdf

Fundamentals of Educational Research succeeds in cutting through the complexities of research to give the novice reader a sound basis to define, develop, and conduct study, while providing insights for even the accomplished reader. This best-selling book is of value to all social researchers, but in particular to upper-level undergraduate and graduate students as well as researchers employed in private industry, management and government agencies. Anderson discusses the research process and offers a wealth of information on how to define a research problem, plan a study, develop a research framework, collect the data, analyse it and write it into a credible paper or thesis. He has captured the essential components of the research process in a book that balances the quantitative and qualitative perspectives through both the academic and consulting research traditions.

Author : Carol A. Mullen
Publisher : R&L Education
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781610489041

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From Student to Professor by Carol A. Mullen Pdf

From Student to Professor is the doorway through which readers experience graduate school life, from both sides of the lectern. This guide not only discusses how students may adjust to- and succeed in graduate school, but comprehensively prepares such students to apply their degrees in academia.

Author : Carol M. Roberts
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781412977982

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The Dissertation Journey by Carol M. Roberts Pdf

This essential guidebook takes readers step-by-step through the dissertation process, with checklists, illustrations, sample forms, and updated coverage of ethics, technology, and the literature review.

Author : Patrick Dunleavy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780230802087

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Authoring a PhD by Patrick Dunleavy Pdf

This engaging and highly regarded book takes readers through the key stages of their PhD research journey, from the initial ideas through to successful completion and publication. It gives helpful guidance on forming research questions, organising ideas, pulling together a final draft, handling the viva and getting published. Each chapter contains a wealth of practical suggestions and tips for readers to try out and adapt to their own research needs and disciplinary style. This text will be essential reading for PhD students and their supervisors in humanities, arts, social sciences, business, law, health and related disciplines.

Author : Joan Bolker
Publisher : Holt Paperbacks
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1998-08-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781429968881

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Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day by Joan Bolker Pdf

Expert writing advice from the editor of the Boston Globe best-seller, The Writer's Home Companion Dissertation writers need strong, practical advice, as well as someone to assure them that their struggles aren't unique. Joan Bolker, midwife to more than one hundred dissertations and co-founder of the Harvard Writing Center, offers invaluable suggestions for the graduate-student writer. Using positive reinforcement, she begins by reminding thesis writers that being able to devote themselves to a project that truly interests them can be a pleasurable adventure. She encourages them to pay close attention to their writing method in order to discover their individual work strategies that promote productivity; to stop feeling fearful that they may disappoint their advisors or family members; and to tailor their theses to their own writing style and personality needs. Using field-tested strategies she assists the student through the entire thesis-writing process, offering advice on choosing a topic and an advisor, on disciplining one's self to work at least fifteen minutes each day; setting short-term deadlines, on revising and defing the thesis, and on life and publication after the dissertation. Bolker makes writing the dissertation an enjoyable challenge.

Author : Karen Bromley
Publisher : IAP
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781607522072

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Writing for Educators by Karen Bromley Pdf

This book is for new faculty, graduate students, teachers, administrators, and other academics who want to write more clearly and have their work published. The essays focus on writing journal articles, dissertations, grants, edited books, and other writing in educational settings. The authors are educators who share their own first-hand experiences that provide novice writers with important knowledge and support in the quest for success in professional scholarly writing. A variety of authors discuss the writer’s craft, including issues of voice, audience, planning, drafting, revision, conventions, style, submitting to journals, editorial review, and editing.

Author : Peggy Hawley
Publisher : Charles C Thomas Publisher
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780398079246

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Being Bright is Not Enough by Peggy Hawley Pdf

This third edition has been well revised and continues with the ideas expressed in the previous two editions. The details and reactions in light of experiences of the intervening years have been updated and expanded. This particularly interesting book is written from a student advocacy perspective, intended to speak to non-traditional students as well as those typical of past generations. Specific topics include: (1) how doctoral study differs from previous pursuits; (2) choosing a dissertation topic; (3) your chair, your committee, and you; (4) writing the proposal; (5) the dissertation; (6) defense of the thesis; and (7) spouses, family and friends. From the Preface: "Looking back upon my academic career, one of the memories that brings me the most pleasure are the words students used to pass along to each other, 'If you have a problem, go see Peggy Hawley.' My distress at seeing bright students drop out and my interest in social science research combined to provide the impetus for writing this book. On a year-long sabbatical leave I interviewed hundreds of doctoral students and dozens of professors across the nation. Then as professor emeritus, I finally found the time to put my thoughts into words . . . . " In making the unwritten rules of doctoral study more explicit, the author has attempted to be insightful rather than scientific, personal rather than objective, and practical rather than theoretical. This guide will therefore help to pave the way for those recipients who will pursue and capture academe's highest award: the terminal degree in a particular field of study.