How to design, write, and present a successful dissertation proposal / Elizabeth A. Wentz, Arizona State University.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wentz, Elizabeth A., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dissertations, Academic--United States.

Dissertations, Academic.

United States.

Report writing.

Research--United States.

Research.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (213 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Los Angeles : SAGE, [2013]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This concise, hands-on book by author Elizabeth A. Wentz is essential reading for any graduate student entering the dissertation process in the social or behavioral sciences. The book addresses the importance of ethical scientific research, developing your curriculum vitae, effective reading and writing, completing a literature review, conceptualizing your research idea, and translating that idea into a realistic research proposal using research methods. The author also offers insight into oral presentations of the completed proposal, and the final chapter presents ideas for next steps after the proposal has been presented. Taking the view that we "learn by doing," the author provides Quick Tasks, Action Items, and To Do List activities throughout the text that, when combined, develop each piece of your research proposal. Designed primarily for quantitative or mixed methods research dissertations, this book is a valuable start-to-finish resource.

Contents:

chapter 1. Introduction

chapter 2. Ethics

chapter 3. Curriculum vitae

chapter 4. Area of specialization

chapter 5. Effective reading

chapter 6. Effective writing

chapter 7. The literature review

chapter 8. The academic village

chapter 9. Conceptualizing a research idea

chapter 10. Problem statement

chapter 11. Research methods

chapter 12. Research proposal

chapter 13. Oral presentations

chapter 14. Next steps.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on MARC record for print version.

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781506374710

OCLC:

918559340

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.