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ISBN 10: 111813303X

ISBN 13: 9781118133033

Author: Joanne Broder Sumerson

This all-inclusive, practical guide will help you design, conduct, and finish an academic dissertation or thesis with minimal drama. The structure of the book follows the sequential flow of a dissertation process from choosing a smart study topic, selecting research design options, to presenting a successful oral defense. Filled with protocols, tips, and reminders, the book presents the best, most direct and timely research practices based upon theoretical and empirical evidence, as well as the perspective and experiences of the author and others who have survived writing their dissertations. This book will help you: Choose a study topic based on your own genuine interests and guide you in creating clear, concise, and measurable questions. Pick the best members to serve on your dissertation committee including pointers for managing the committee dynamics and feedback. Understand the legal regulations and ethical guidelines for all parts of the research process. Work through common barriers, such as procrastination, perfectionism, and writers block. Decide which research design options might work best to answer your research questions. A diagram is provided to show how variables will connect to research questions, hypotheses, literature review, study design, and the data collection process. Understand the best practices for the entire data collection process, including participant recruitment, instrument and intervention selection, as well as the actual study procedure. Organize both qualitative and quantitative data using very simple steps. Realistic steps to analyze and interpret data sets to draw objective and unbiased results are presented. Write the literature review. Highlights the importance of appropriate paraphrases and citations. Key questions to help extract relevant information are shared. Gain an understanding of the Institutional Review Board (IRB) application and review process, developing consent forms, and tips for satisfying the committees requirements and behavioral etiquette in working with IRB representatives. Answer the question, Is it good enough to pass? Preview the rubric, a tool to guide and standardize the grading process, typically used by a dissertation committee. Each component of the rubric is discussed in a corresponding chapter.

Finish Your Dissertation Dont Let It Finish You 1st Table of contents:

Chapter 1: The Secret Handshake

The Team That Will Make or Break You: The Committee

Typical Dissertation Committee Structure

The Chairperson

General Committee Members

“Emily Post” for Academic Research

Top 10 Rules for Maintaining Emotional and Social Intelligence

Honesty Really Is the Best Policy

Checklist for Maintaining Integrity

Chapter 2: Breaking Ground on Your Study

The Intrinsically Satisfying Study Topic

Breaking Ground Can Be Easier Than You Think

The Quick and Dirty About Variables

Dependent Variables

Independent Variables

Levels Within the Variables

Variable Definitions

This Is Exactly What I Want to Know: Ask Solid Research Questions

Examples of Strong Research Question Stems

Examples of Bad Research Questions

Examples of Good Research Questions

This Is What I Think About What I Want to Know: Confident Hypotheses

Examples of Research Questions and Hypotheses

Chapter 3: Anatomy of a Dissertation

What Comes Before the Five Chapters

What Follows the Five Chapters

Additional Helpful Resources

Chapter 4: Rolling Out the Red Carpet for Your Study: The Strong Introduction

Introduction (What Is Going On Here?)

Rationale (So What Makes This Topic Important?)

Purpose of Study (Now What Is Going to Be Done About It?)

Chapter 5: Literature Review Made Simple

How to Do an Exemplary Lit Review

Give the Author Proper Credit

Juice Your Sources for the Information You Need

Threats to Internal and External Validity

Internal Validity

External Validity

Empirical Juicer

Theoretical Juicer

Additional Helpful Resou Rces

Chapter 6: Data Scavenger Hunt: Methodology

What Type of Interior (Research) Design Goes With Those Foundational Research Questions?

Core Nuts and Bolts of Research Design

The People Helping You Do It: The Participant Sample

Study Props: Instruments and Materials

Qualitative, Quantitative, or Mixed Methods?

Construct Validity

Go Get It: Study Procedure

What Type of Detail Needs to Be in the Procedure?

Additional Helpful Resources

Chapter 7: The Institutional Review Board (IRB)

The IRB Application Process

The IRB Four: Voluntary, Anonymity, Confidentiality, and Transparency

Solid Consent Forms

IRB Survival Skills

Chapter 8: Making Sense of the Data Collection Scavenger Hunt: Results

Data Speak

What Do I Do With These Numbers?

What Do I Do With the Words?

Tips for Conducting a Content Analysis

Additional Helpful Resources

Chapter 9: I Am Listening, Data: Discussion

Introduction

Interpretation of Findings for Research Questions and Hypotheses and Additional Analyses: What?

Limitations

Implications for Theory and Practice: So What?

Future Research: Now What?

Conclusion

Chapter 10: Your Data’s Next Chapter After the Dissertation Write-Up and Graduation

Pointers for a Smooth Oral Defense

Postgraduation Words of Wisdom

Your Dissertation Beyond Graduation (If and When You are Ready, of Course)

Present at a Conference

Publish Your Study in a Scholarly Journal

Apply Your Study Data as Consultation Content

Closing Thoughts

Appendix A: Summary Chart of Statistics, What to Report, Abbreviations, and Suggested Syntax

Appendix B: Anatomy of a Dissertation in Context

Appendix C: Sample Dissertation Rubric

Appendix D: The Juicers

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