Contents |
What Are Theses and Dissertations, and Why Write a Book About Them? -- Starting Out: Assessing Your Preparation for the Task Ahead -- Time and Trouble Management -- Finding Topics and Faculty Collaborators -- Formulating and Communicating Your Plans: An Overview of the Proposal -- Reviewing the Literature -- Research Methodology and Ethics -- Measuring Study Variables -- Selecting the Appropriate Data Analysis Approaches -- Collecting, Managing, and Analyzing the Data -- Presenting the Results -- Discussing the Results -- Managing Committee Meetings: Proposal and Oral Defense -- Presenting Your Project to the World. |
Abstract |
"For over twenty five years, Dissertations and Theses from Start to Finish: Psychology and Related Fields has guided student writers through the practical, logistical, and emotional struggles that come with writing dissertations and theses. It offers guidance to students through all the essential steps, including: Defining topics; Selecting faculty advisors; Scheduling time to work on the project, and; Conducting, analyzing, writing, presenting, and publishing research. This fully updated third edition includes guiding questions, checklists, diagrams, and sample research papers. It also reflects the most recent advances in online research and includes fully updated online resources. Each chapter begins with an Advance Organizer that offers an at a glance summary of chapter content and applicability for different types of readers. Chapters also include significantly expanded To Do and Supplemental Resource lists, as well as helpful suggestions for dealing with impasses and common internal and external "traps" that recur throughout the writing process. The authors also provide a thoughtful consideration of the variety of roles faculty advisors play, and of variations in the thesis and dissertation process and requirements across institutions of higher learning"-- Provided by publisher. |
General note | Previous editions entered under: John D. Cone. |
Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
Source of description | Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 03, 2019). |
Issued in other form | Print version: Bell, Debora. Dissertations and theses from start to finish Third edition. Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, [2019] 9781433830648 |
Genre/form | Electronic books. |
LCCN | 2019022626 |
ISBN | 1433831600 electronic book |
ISBN | 9781433831607 electronic book |
ISBN | paperback |
Stock number | 22573/ctv1cgpv34 JSTOR |