Surviving Your Dissertation

Written from the perspective of an ideal mentor, the authors provide guidance that other books often miss from ways to improve your writing to identifying your learning style and dealing with emotional blocks. Using examples from a wide range of disciplines, they a supply expert advice on the entire dissertation process: selecting a suitable topic; conducting a literature review; managing data overload; building an argument; presenting the material, data, and results; and, working with faculty committees.

New to this Edition:

The use of the internet as a source of reference material and as a tool for data collection methods Greatly expanded coverage of writing the qualitatively based dissertation from methods to writing up the results (including the use of software packages for qualitative analysis) Detailed coverage of presenting the results, including recent challenges to null hypothesis significance testing Tables showing Web addresses (URLs) for quantitative and qualitative software as well as numerous other sources of information for the dissertation student