A Practical Guide to the Qualitative Dissertation

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Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 12
CHAPTER 1--Thinking About the Dissertation......Page 16
ADVICE......Page 17
WHAT IS A QUALITATIVE DISSERTATION?......Page 19
WHO DO WE IMAGINE YOU ARE?......Page 21
WHAT THIS BOOK IS......Page 22
CHAPTER 2--What Makes a Good Dissertation?......Page 24
THREE DISSERTATIONS AND THEIR GENESIS......Page 25
THE QUALITIES OF A GOOD DISSERTATION......Page 27
COMING UP WITH AN IDEA FOR THE DISSERTATION......Page 30
DOING AN INTERDISCIPLINARY DISSERTATION......Page 32
NARRATIVE AUTHORITY......Page 36
MAKING AN ARGUMENT......Page 40
FORMS OF ARGUMENT......Page 41
CHAPTER 3--Dissertation Advisors and Committees......Page 45
THE COMMITTEE AS AUDIENCE......Page 46
DISSERTATION ADVISORS......Page 48
WORKING WITH YOUR COMMITTEE......Page 51
LEARNING LESSONS FROM FRUSTRATION......Page 52
THINKING ABOUT CRITICISM......Page 55
THINKING ABOUT COMMITTEES......Page 56
CHAPTER 4--The Protection of Human Subjects......Page 58
THE FUNCTIONS OF AN IRB......Page 59
STANDARD FORMS FOR AN IRB REVIEW......Page 62
SPECIFIC ADVICE......Page 64
BALANCING ETHICS AND STRATEGY......Page 65
A RESEARCHER’S STORY: GETTING IRB APPROVAL......Page 66
CHAPTER 5--The Qualitative Proposal......Page 70
STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM AND PURPOSE OF THE STUDY......Page 71
THE LITERATURE REVIEW......Page 77
METHODS AND PROCEDURES......Page 78
ORGANIZATION......Page 79
CONCLUDING SECTION......Page 80
COMMON QUESTIONS ABOUT THE PROPOSAL......Page 81
CHAPTER 6--The Chapters......Page 84
THE RELIABLE NARRATOR......Page 85
CHAPTER 1: THE INTRODUCTION......Page 86
CHAPTER 2: THE LITERATURE REVIEW......Page 91
CHAPTER 3: METHODS AND PROCEDURES......Page 94
CHAPTERS 4, 5, AND 6: THE DATA CHAPTERS......Page 97
CHAPTER 7: THE CONCLUSION......Page 102
CHAPTER 7--Writing as Work—Getting It Done......Page 104
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF PUBLIC EXPOSURE......Page 105
SELF-CONFIDENCE, CULTURAL CAPITAL, AND THE DISSERTATION PROJECT......Page 106
WRITING GROUPS FOR DISSERTATION SUPPORT......Page 107
GETTING STARTED, KEEPING GOING, AND GETTING IT DONE......Page 109
PERSEVERANCE......Page 111
WRITING AS STYLE......Page 113
USING YOUR TIME......Page 115
A FEW WORDS ON STYLE......Page 116
CHAPTER 8--The Defense of the Qualitative Dissertation......Page 120
THE DEFENSE: A DEFINITION AND DESCRIPTION......Page 121
PREPARATION FOR THE DEFENSE......Page 124
THE DEFENSE AS A PERFORMANCE......Page 125
CHAPTER 9--NontraditionalDissertations......Page 131
WHAT IS A NONTRADITIONAL DISSERTATION?......Page 132
THE ATTRACTIONS OF THE FORM......Page 133
CONSIDERING THE NONTRADITIONAL QUALITATIVE DISSERTATION......Page 134
ADVICE......Page 137
References......Page 138
Resource Guide......Page 144
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C......Page 149
E......Page 150
I......Page 151
O......Page 152
S......Page 153
W......Page 154
Z......Page 155
About the Authors......Page 156