Surviving Your Dissertation: A Comprehensive Guide to Content and Process PDF

Rating: (30 reviews) Author: Kjell Erik Rudestam ISBN : 9781412916783 New from $89.98 Format: PDF

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"The book is an excellent addition to those already available in the area and provides a very practical guide that students can pick up and use for reference throughout their dissertation process."
—ESCalate (a Higher Education Academy Network publication)

Like the previous editions of this bestselling text, Surviving Your Dissertation: A Comprehensive Guide to Content and Process, Third Edition offers readers guidance that other dissertation guides often miss, from ways to improve one's writing, to identifying one's learning preferences, to dealing with emotional blocks. Using examples from a wide range of disciplines, the authors give readers expert advice on the entire dissertation process: selecting a suitable topic; conducting a literature review; managing data overload; building an argument; presenting the material, data, and results; and working with faculty committees. The entire text has been updated and fresh examples have been added to it. This edition features an up-to-the-minute discussion of online research and the use of software packages. The authors have expanded their coverage of qualitative work, and added information about the use of mixed methods to the book. These updates and more make the Third Edition of Surviving Your Dissertation a must have resource for graduate students.

Key Features of the Third Edition:

• Walks readers through the dissertation process as an ideal mentor would.
• Devotes more attention to qualitative work, and touches upon mixed methods.
• Discusses online library resources and completing one’s dissertation via the Internet.
• Features new material on the use of graphics.
• Includes information about informed consent forms.

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• Hardcover: 328 pages
• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc; 3rd edition (April 5, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 141291678X
• ISBN-13: 978-1412916783
• Product Dimensions: 0.9 x 6.6 x 9.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

Surviving Your Dissertation: A Comprehensive Guide to Content and Process PDF

This gem of a book is truly a life saver to any doctoral student navigating the rough waters of the dissertation process. Drs. Kjell Rudestam and Rae Newton take a usually convoluted process and map out a clear path that easy to follow from start to finish. This book was my bible going through my dissertation. The authors' clarity of writing and comprehensive thought allowed me to easily take the principles off the pages and put them into practice. I highly recommend it!

By Dennis S. Reina, Ph.D.

This is an outstanding guide for the dissertation process. I have consulted several other similar works on how to write a dissertation but this is the one I have relied on the most because it is comprehensive and very easy to follow. The entire text can be read in a few hours for a very good over view of the process. Then it becomes a very handy "survival" life line when problems come up.

By W. E. Shuler, III