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

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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