TY  - BOOK
AU  - Foss,Sonja K
AU  - Waters,William Joseph Condon
TI  - Destination dissertation: a traveler's guide to a done dissertation 
SN  - 9780742554405
AV  - LB2369.W331.D478 2007 
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Lanham
PB  - Rowman and Littlefield Publishers
KW  - Dissertations, Academic
KW  - Authorship
KW  - Handbooks, manuals, etc
KW  - Academic writing
N1  - 2; 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; 2
UR  - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip078/2007000391.html
ER  -