Surviving Your Dissertation
A Comprehensive Guide to Content and Process
- Kjell Erik Rudestam - Fielding Graduate University, USA
- Rae R. Newton - Fielding Graduate University, USA
Perfect for graduate students as well as behavioural and social scientists who supervise and conduct research!
In the fully updated Fourth Edition of their best-selling guide, Surviving Your Dissertation, Rudestam and Newton answer questions concerning every stage of the dissertation process, including:
- selecting a suitable topic
- conducting a literature review
- developing a research question
- understanding the role of theory
- selecting an appropriate methodology and research design
- analysing data
- interpreting and presenting results.
In addition, this must-have guide covers topics that other dissertation guides often miss, such as the many types of quantitative and qualitative research models available, the principles of good scholarly writing, how to work with committees, how to meet IRB and ethical standards, and how to overcome task and emotional blocks.
With plenty of current examples, the new edition features an expanded discussion of online research, data collection and analysis, and the use of data archives, as well as expanded coverage of qualitative methods and added information on mixed methods.
Students like the style of the textbook -- I have used this book in the past and will continue to use it in my Dissertation course.
Excellent resource for new PhD students. The authors provide a wealth of information on the topics of importance to graduate students.
Useful practical information to complement more scholarly information about research.
A good development on the previous edition; enhancing a number of points/apsect well.
The book serves as a nice supplemental to the primary course text. The changes in the new edition offer valuable clarifications and examples.
I think that this will be a very useful book for students taking my dissertation proposal writing course.
Have used previous editions and found it extremely helpful to students.
Adopted Roberts The Dissertation Journey as a more general guidance than Surviving.
Clear and lucid text. Easy to use. Appropriate for doctoral students in architecture.
This text provides a good structure for the entire thesis/dissertation pathway. It is very useful in my department's required professionalization seminar for all incoming graduate students.
