Surviving Your Dissertation: A Comprehensive Guide to Content and Process - Softcover

Rudestam, Kjell Erik; Newton, Rae R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0761919627 ISBN 13: 9780761919629

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 2000

Synopsis

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

About this title

About the Authors

Kjell Erik Rudestam is Professor of Psychology at Fielding Graduate University, Santa Barbara, California, where he served as Associate Dean of Academic Affairs for many years. He was previously a psychology professor at York University, Toronto, and Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, after receiving his PhD in Psychology (Clinical) from the University of Oregon. He is the author of Your Statistical Consultant: Answers to Your Data Analysis Questions, 2nd edition (also with Rae R. Newton), Handbook of Online Learning, 2nd edition (with Judith Schoenholtz-Read), and eight other books, as well as numerous articles in professional journals on topics including suicide, psychotherapy, and family and organizational systems. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (Division 12), a Diplomate of the American Board of Examiners in Professional
Psychology (Clinical), a Diplomate of the American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress, and holds an Honorary Doctorate of Science from The Professional School of Psychology.

Rae R. Newton is Professor of Sociology Emeritus at California State University, Fullerton. He recently joined the faculty of the School of Psychology at Fielding Graduate University where he serves as a research consultant and statistical advisor to doctoral students and faculty. He received his PhD in sociology from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and completed postdoctoral training in mental health measurement at Indiana University. His primary interests include longitudinal modeling of outcomes for high risk youth and foster care populations, family violence and statistics education. He is author, with Kjell Erik Rudestam, of Your Statistical Consultant: Answers to Your Data Analysis Questions, now in its second edition and numerous articles in professional journals on topics including family violence, child maltreatment, and measurement. In semi-retirement he enjoys traveling with his wife in their RV and surfing throughout Mexico and Central America.

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0761919627
• ISBN 13: 9780761919629
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 312