Destination dissertation : a traveler's guide to a done dissertation / Sonja K. Foss and William Waters. [print]

Includes bibliographies and index.

Preparing to Go: The Dissertation Journey -- 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 -- The Journey Before You: 29 Steps -- Our timetable Yeah, but ... -- Dissertation checklist -- Planning the Trip: The Conceptual Conversation -- Selecting and orienting a partner -- Asking and answering questions -- Identifying key pieces -- Developing Your Itinerary: The Pre-Proposal -- Formulating your research question -- Criteria for a good research question -- Multiple research questions -- Selecting your aata -- Aligning your research question and 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 -- Advice from Other Travelers: The Literature Review -- Coding the literature -- Sorting your codes -- Checking your codes -- Creating your conceptual schema -- Writing it up -- Getting There: The Dissertation Proposal -- Introduction -- Research question -- Definition of terms -- Literature review -- Research design -- Data -- History or context -- Procedures -- Data collection -- Data analysis -- Assumptions -- Significance of the study -- Outline of the study -- Recap: sections of a dissertation proposal -- Approval of the proposal.

Things to See and Do: Data Collection and Analysis -- Collecting your data -- Creating codable data -- Identifying Your unit(s) of analysis -- Coding your data -- Sorting your codes -- Checking your codes -- Creating your explanatory schema -- Writing it up -- Making the Most of Your Travels: The Last Chapter Plus -- Summary -- Interpretation of findings -- Limitations -- Suggestions for future research -- Finishing up -- Useful Phrases: Writing and Editing -- Fast writing -- Turning off the screen -- Making notes to self -- Writing with headings -- Skipping around -- Keeping the ideas flowing -- Slow revising -- Editing -- Proofreading -- Computer-aided proofreading -- Hard-copy proofreading -- Travelogue: The Dissertation Defense -- Preparing for your defense -- The defense itself -- Following your defense -- Making the Best Use of Your Guide: Advisor Advising -- Asking appropriately -- Agreeing on a vision -- Expectations about roles -- Expectations about advising -- Replication model -- Apprenticeship model -- Cocreation model -- 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 -- Avoiding Delays and Annoyances: Enactment of the Scholar Role -- 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.

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