A good guide for the dissertation writing process

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	• Surviving Your Dissertation: A Comprehensive Guide to Content and Process (Surviving Your Dissertation: A ... Kjell Erik Rudestam, Rae R. Newton Sage Publications, Inc, 2007 - 328 pages average customer review:based on 11 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Blue Book

Every so often a blue book comes along that really rocks your world and makes life so much easier. Life just makes more sense...

Well, this is surely a blue book...

designed mainly for social science ABDs

I am going to see what could be made relevant to my research in English, but it was frustrating to see that it is so geared towards social scientists. The book has every right to focus on a particular type of graduate student (however it should be noted, I think), but since humanities grads are seen as fluffy, redundant and not "fact" finders, this book is not comforting for me to read. It re-emphasizes empirical evidence and thus continues to suggest (by not mentioning them)that humanities dissertations do not "prove" anything. While my dissertation will be organized around a "problem" of a certain kind, it is not something that can be tested or measured in the same ways as a social scientist's research. This makes it even more challenging to specifically define and finish. The book still looks well-written and addresses some areas that should be helpful if only mentally.

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A good guide for the dissertation writing process

This book was recommended by my dissertation chair (which meant I HAD to buy it). Once I got it and read through it, I found it to be surprisingly helpful. I just got the book yesterday and I have already filled the margins with notes and post-its. It is a good resource to have and am glad I got it at the beginning stages of the dissertation writing process.

Surviving Your Dissertation

This book gives practical and reassuring advice on how to survive the thesis or dissertation process. A must have book for all students!!!

Excellent resource!

This book serves as an excellent resource. The style is clear and the book is well structured. Offers very helpful advice.

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Like the previous editions of this bestselling text, Surviving Your Dissertation: A Comprehensive Guide to Content and Process, Third Edition offers readers guidance that other dissertation guides often miss, from ways to improve one's writing, to identifying one's learning preferences, to dealing with emotional blocks. Using examples from a wide range of disciplines, the authors give readers 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. The entire text has been updated and fresh examples have been added to it. This edition features an up-to-the-minute discussion of online research and the use of software packages. The authors have expanded their coverage of qualitative work, and added information about the use of mixed methods to the book. These updates and more make the Third Edition of Surviving Your Dissertation a must have resource for graduate students.

Key Features of the Third Edition:

Walks readers through the dissertation process as an ideal mentor would.Devotes more attention to qualitative work, and touches upon mixed methods.Discusses online library resources and completing one?s dissertation via the Internet.Features new material on the use of graphics.Includes information about informed consent forms.

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