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• Title:Destination dissertation : a traveler's guide to a done dissertation / Sonja K. Foss and William Waters.
  
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• Author/Creator:Foss, Sonja K., author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Waters, William Joseph Condon, author.
  Ebooks Corporation.
  
• Published/Created:Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2016]
  

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  • Call Number: LB2369
    
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  • Status:No information available 

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Dissertations, Academic--Authorship--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
  Academic writing--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
  
• Edition:Second edition.
  
• Description:1 online resource.
  
• Reproduction note:Electronic reproduction. Perth, W.A. Available via World Wide Web.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  Description based on print version record.
  
• ISBN:9781442246157 (electronic bk.)
  1442246154 (electronic bk.)
  9781442246133
  1442246138
  9781442246140
  1442246146
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: Can a Dissertation Really Be a Trip?
  Packing Your Bags
  Enjoyment
  Doability
  Competence
  Agency
  Support
  Our Guarantees
  Your Travel Agents
  How to Use This Guide
  Our Timetable
  Yeah, But
  Selecting and Orienting a Partner
  Asking and Answering Questions
  Identifying Key Pieces
  Naming the Problem
  Formulating Your Research Question
  Criteria for a Good Research Question
  Multiple Research Questions
  Selecting Your Data
  Identifying Your Method of Data Collection
  Identifying Your Method of Data Analysis
  Identifying the Literature to Review
  Identifying the Significance of Your Study
  Identifying Your Chapters
  Writing Your Preproposal
  Assessing Your Decisions
  Committing to the Preproposal with Your Advisor
  Coding Your Literature
  Keyboarding Method
  Photocopying Method
  Cutting Apart Your Codes
  Sorting Your Codes
  Checking Your Piles
  Creating Your Conceptual Schema
  Writing It Up
  Introduction
  Research Question
  Definition of Terms
  Literature Review
  Research Design
  Data
  History or Context
  Procedures
  Assumptions or Theoretical Framework
  Significance of the Study
  Outline of the Study
  Approval of the Proposal
  Collecting Your Data
  Creating Codable Data
  Identifying Your Unit of Analysis
  Coding Your Data
  Sorting Your Codes
  Checking Your Codes
  Creating Your Explanatory Schema
  Getting Inspiration for Your Explanatory Schema
  Talking Out Loud
  Random Stimulation
  Shifting Focus
  Aristotle's Topics
  Reversing
  Framing
  Assessing Your Explanatory Schema
  Writing It Up
  Summary
  Interpretation of Findings
  Limitations
  Suggestions for Future Research
  Three-Article Format
  Finishing Up
  Fast Writing
  Switching Off the Screen
  Making Notes to Yourself
  Writing with Headings
  Skipping Around
  Getting Unstuck
  Slow Revising
  Editing
  Proofreading
  Preparing for Your Defense
  Defense Itself
  Opening
  Questions
  Your Answers
  Closing
  Following Your Defense
  Asking Appropriately
  Agreeing on a Vision
  Expectations about Roles
  Expectations about Advising
  Expectations about Dissertations
  Articulating Needs
  Conceptual Conversation
  Ground Rules
  Information about the Dissertation Process
  Information about Research and Writing
  Information about the Dissertation Defense
  Enacting Professionalism
  Assessing Your Relationship
  Understanding Your Advisor's Perspective
  Framing Issues Collaboratively
  Protecting Your Advisor's Face
  Planning for Action
  Applying Productive Chicanery
  Performing Completion
  Asking for Help from a Mediator
  Adding a Coadvisor
  Switching Advisors
  Incomplete-Scholar Roles
  Housekeeper
  Model Employee
  Undocumented Worker
  Patient
  Good Student
  Proxy Critic
  Executor
  Maverick
  Enacting the Scholar Role: Writing Regularly
  Writing on a Schedule
  Focusing on Successes.