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Writing Your Doctoral Dissertation or Thesis Faster E. Alana James

Writing Your Doctoral Dissertation or Thesis Faster By E. Alana James

Writing Your Doctoral Dissertation or Thesis Faster by E. Alana James


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Building on the authors' experience with their own doctoral students, this easy-to-read guide, helps and encourages students to write and complete their thesis faster.

Writing Your Doctoral Dissertation or Thesis Faster Summary

Writing Your Doctoral Dissertation or Thesis Faster: A Proven Map to Success by E. Alana James

Any new journey requires a map to guide you through potential pitfalls, explain interesting landmarks, and offer time-saving tips. Given that a thesis or dissertation is arguably the most important journey students will embark upon in their professional career, smart travellers will want Writing Your Doctoral Dissertation or Thesis Faster close at hand.

This guide helps you determine their research topic, choose appropriate methods, turn a hypothesis into a study, complete a literature review, write and defend a proposal, collect and analyze data, write up the study, and ultimately defend your dissertation. Building on years of experience with their own doctoral students, the authors have developed an extremely comprehensive, yet easy-to-use tool, which includes unique features like encouraging student reflection, student stories, hints and tips, end-of-chapter checklists, and ideas for incorporating social media.

When used in a classroom setting, ancillary content assist instructors in supporting students throughout the process. Use the proven techniques and guidance of this indispensible tool to finish faster!

Writing Your Doctoral Dissertation or Thesis Faster Reviews

It is extremely readable and candid. As a faculty [member], I want students to know the 'real deal'. The approach offered in this book provides one that is holistic realizing that our students are people with lives that influence the dissertation process. The Tracesea sections came at the right time when I was going to ask the very same question. Multiple voices of student and faculty add a wonderful dynamic. Love the use of PowerPoint slides, which would help me tremendously in my dissertation seminar. -- Gretchen McAllister
I really like the detail, experiences, reflections by students, and layout. -- Gene Gloeckner

About E. Alana James

Dr. E. Alana James, received her Ed.D. in educational leadership from Teachers College in 2005. Since then she has helped over 30 doctoral candidates in either educational leadership or business move through the process on to graduation. Working primarily as supervisor for a number of online for profit universities, but also sometimes in the role of committee member, she identified the key places and challenges that created extra stress and, unfortunately, sometimes breakdown. This book and her work developing DoctoralNet.com is in reaction to those difficulties and will, with adoption, increase graduation rates for those working towards a PhD or other type of doctoral degree. You can follow DoctoralNet on twitter, facebook or Google +. Dr James also specializes in action research and has used that transformative process throughout the development of the techniques and strategies outlined herein. Information about her other books can be found on the website for Sage Publishing. A believer in the doctoral process as a rite of passage that releases the greatest potential in life, she reinvented her own life to move half way around the world from where she began. Living in Ireland with her partner, their two dogs and a cat she authors nonfiction work on health and wellness on her personal website at ealanajames.com where you can connect with her as a writer, a consultant or speaker. Tracesea Slater, M.A. is the Director of Strategy at DoctoralNet.com where she works with Dr. James to raise graduation rates by assisting doctoral students to finish their dissertations. Tracesea's main areas of research interest are education, disadvantaged populations and youth development. Her research experience includes work as the Manager of Research and Evaluation at a nonprofit serving homeless youth in Denver, CO. She also has done research and program evaluation in the fields of education and health care at a social research company. Tracesea's academic experience includes work as a sociology instructor at the University of Colorado and Colorado Technical University.

Table of Contents

PART I. Designing Your Dissertation or Doctoral Thesis 1. Do You Understand What is Required in a Doctoral Dissertation or Thesis? 2. Do You Have an Idea for a Topic 3. Do You Have Some Idea How You Will Study Your Topic? Bridging Topic and Methods 4. Do You Know How to Develop Your Research Design, and Methodology? 5. Do You Understand How to Fine Tune Your Methodological Choices? Moving From Basics to Getting Ready to Write PART II. Writing and Defending Your Proposal 6. Are You Ready to Write Your Methodology? 7. Are You Ready to Write Your Review of Literature? 8. Are You Ready to Write the Overview for Your Study? 9. Are You and Your Proposal Ready for Defense? PART III. Findings/Conclusions and Writing Your Final Dissertation or Thesis 10. Have You Finished Your Data Collection? 11. Are You Ready to Write Up Your Qualitative Data? 12. Are You Ready to Write Up Your Quantitative Data? 13. Are You Ready to Write Up Your Mixed Methods Data? 14. Are You Ready for Your Final Defense?

Additional information

NGR9781452274157
9781452274157
1452274150
Writing Your Doctoral Dissertation or Thesis Faster: A Proven Map to Success by E. Alana James
New
Paperback
SAGE Publications Inc
20140121
296
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