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Destination Dissertation: A Traveler's Guide to a Done Dissertation
Demystifying and charting a path from concept to completion, Destination Dissertation has helped thousands of doctoral students emerge on the other side of their dissertation as successful researchers. The third edition supplements the core 29 steps of the dissertation with new discussions of research technologies and now-popular dissertation sections like theoretical perspective, theoretical framework, and positionality statement. A new chapter looks beyond the dissertation to springboard researchers into future journal and book publishing opportunities.
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Destination Dissertation: A Traveler's Guide to a Done Dissertation
Demystifying and charting a path from concept to completion, Destination Dissertation has helped thousands of doctoral students emerge on the other side of their dissertation as successful researchers. The third edition supplements the core 29 steps of the dissertation with new discussions of research technologies and now-popular dissertation sections like theoretical perspective, theoretical framework, and positionality statement. A new chapter looks beyond the dissertation to springboard researchers into future journal and book publishing opportunities.
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Destination Dissertation: A Traveler's Guide to a Done Dissertation
Demystifying and charting a path from concept to completion, Destination Dissertation has helped thousands of doctoral students emerge on the other side of their dissertation as successful researchers. The third edition supplements the core 29 steps of the dissertation with new discussions of research technologies and now-popular dissertation sections like theoretical perspective, theoretical framework, and positionality statement. A new chapter looks beyond the dissertation to springboard researchers into future journal and book publishing opportunities.
Sonja K. Foss is professor emerita of communication at the University of Colorado at Denver. She created and is co-director of Scholars' Retreat, designed to provide intensive, focused, and supervised writing time for dissertations, theses, and other writing projects.
William Waters is associate professor of English at the University of Houston, Downtown and co-director of Scholars' Retreat. Sonja K. Foss is professor emerit in the Department of Communication at the University of Colorado Denver. Her research and teaching interests are in contemporary rhetorical theory and criticism, feminist perspectives on communication, the incorporation of marginalized voices into rhetorical theory and practice, and visual rhetoric. She is the author or coauthor of the books Gender Stories, Rhetorical Criticism, Contemporary Perspectives on Rhetoric, Inviting Transformation: Presentational Speaking for a Changing World, Feminist Rhetorical Theories, Inviting Understanding: A Portrait of Invitational Rhetoric, and Feminism in Practice. Foss earned her PhD in communication studies from Northwestern University and previously taught at Ohio State University, the University of Oregon, the University of Denver, Virginia Tech, and Norfolk State University.
Together, Sonja K. Foss and William Waters offer writing retreats and present workshops on topics such as completing dissertations, publishing, and advising, and they coach individual scholars working on dissertations, articles, and books. William Waters is associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Houston-Downtown. His research and teaching interests are in poetry, writing theory and practice, the history of the English language, linguistics, and modern grammar. He is the author of Unwatered Seeds and the managing editor of La Puerta: A Doorway into the Academy. Waters earned his PhD in language and linguistics from the University of New Mexico and previously taught at Northwest Missouri State University; the University of Maine; University College in Galway, Ireland; and Cheongbuk National University in Korea.
Together, William Waters and Sonja K. Foss offer writing retreats and present workshops on topics such as completing dissertations, publishing, and advising, and they coach individual scholars working on dissertations, articles, and books.
Acknowledgments xi Preparing to Go: The Dissertation Journey 1 Can a Dissertation Really Be a Trip? 2 Packing Your Bags 3 Enjoyment 3 Doability 3 Competence 4 Agency 6 Support 6 Our Guarantees 7 Your Travel Agents 10 How to Use This Guide 13 The Journey before You: 29 Steps 17 Our Timetable 18 Yeah, But... 22 Dissertation Checklist 23 Planning the Trip: The Conceptual Conversation 25 Selecting and Orienting a Partner 27 Asking and Answering Questions 28 Identifying Key Pieces 31 Developing Your Itinerary: The Preproposal 35 Formulating Your Research Question 36 Criteria for a Good Research Question 37 Multiple Research Questions 43 Selecting Your Data 46 Aligning Your Research Question and Your Data 48 Identifying Your Method of Data Collection 50 Identifying Your Method of Data Analysis 51 Identifying theLiterature to Review 52 Identifying the Significance of Your Study 57 Identifying Your Chapters 59 Writing Your Preproposal 60 Assessing Your Decisions 69 Committing to the Preproposal with Your Advisor 71 Advice from Other Travelers: The Literature Review 75 Coding the Literature 75 Sorting Your Codes 84 Checking Your Codes 86 Creating Your Conceptual Schema 86 Writing It Up 92 Getting There: The Dissertation Proposal 113 Introduction 115 Research Question 120 Definition of Terms 122 Literature Review 125 Research Design 126 Data 126 History or Context 135 Procedures 142 Data Collection 142 Data Analysis 146 Assumptions 151 Significance of the Study 157 Outline of the Study 161 Recap: Sections of a Dissertation Proposal 163 Approval of the Proposal 163 Things to See and Do: Data Collection and Analysis 185 Collecting Your Data 185 Creating Codable Data 186 Identifying Your Unit(s) of Analysis 186 Coding Your Data 187 Sorting Your Codes 191 Checking Your Codes 194 Creating Your Explanatory Schema 196 Writing It Up 212 Making the Most of Your Travels: The Last Chapter Plus 217 Summary 218 Interpretation of Findings 224 Limitations 237 Suggestions for Future Research 243 Finishing Up 249 Useful Phrases: Writing and Editing 265 Fast Writing 266 Turning Off the Screen 268 Making Notes to Self 269 Writing with Headings 270 Skipping Around 272 Keeping the Ideas Flowing 272 Slow Revising 273 Editing 273 Proofreading 275 Computer-Aided Proofreading 276 Hard Copy Proofreading 277 Travelogue: The Dissertation Defense 279 Preparing for Your Defense 280 The Defense Itself 284 Following Your Defense 290 Making the Best Use of Your Guide: Advisor Advising 293 Asking Appropriately 294 Agreeing on a Vision 298 Expectations about Roles 298 Expectations about Advising 299 Replication Model 300 Apprenticeship Model 300 Cocreation Model 301 Expectations about Dissertations 301 Articulating Needs 303 Conceptual Conversation 303 Ground Rules 303 Information about the Dissertation Process 314 Information about Research and Writing 315 Information about the Dissertation Defense 315 Enacting Professionalism 317 Assessing Your Relationship 320 Understanding Your Advisor's Perspective 321 Framing Issues Collaboratively 322 Protecting Your Advisor's Face 323 Planning for Action 324 Applying Productive Chicanery 325 Performing Completion 327 Asking for Help from a Mediator 328 Adding a Coadvisor 328 Switching Advisors 329 Avoiding Delays and Annoyances: Enacting the Scholar Role 331 Incomplete-Scholar Roles 332 Housekeeper 333 Model Employee 334 Undocumented Worker 336 Patient 337 Good Student 339 Proxy Critic 340 Executor 341 Maverick 343 Enacting the Scholar Role: Writing Regularly 343 Writing on a Schedule 345 Focusing on Successes 350 Index 361 About the Authors 367
