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Completing Your Qualitative Dissertation
A Road Map From Beginning to End
Fourth Edition
- Linda Dale Bloomberg
- Marie Volpe - Teachers College, Columbia University, USA
October 2018 | 456 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
Completing Your Qualitative Dissertation offers comprehensive step-by-step guidance and practical tools for navigating the personal and professional challenges that can arise during the qualitative dissertation journey. Authors Linda Dale Bloomberg and Maria Volpe skillfully blend the conceptual, theoretical, and practical, empowering readers to successfully master both the content and the process of their qualitative dissertations.
The Fourth Edition has been thoroughly updated to respond to developments in the field, allowing the book to have wider application for dissertation work within the evolving world of qualitative inquiry. Included in this edition is a new chapter titled “Achieving Alignment Throughout Your Dissertation,” a greater focus on how all qualitative traditions can encompass activist research and social justice inquiry, and enhanced coverage on the role of the researcher, emphasizing the importance of reflexivity and approaching research critically.
The Fourth Edition has been thoroughly updated to respond to developments in the field, allowing the book to have wider application for dissertation work within the evolving world of qualitative inquiry. Included in this edition is a new chapter titled “Achieving Alignment Throughout Your Dissertation,” a greater focus on how all qualitative traditions can encompass activist research and social justice inquiry, and enhanced coverage on the role of the researcher, emphasizing the importance of reflexivity and approaching research critically.
List of Tables
List of Figures
List of Appendices
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
PART I. TAKING CHARGE OF YOURSELF AND YOUR WORK
1. A Complete Dissertation: The Big Picture
2. Gearing Up: There Is Method in the Madness
3. Choosing a Qualitative Research Approach
4. Developing Your Research Proposal
5. Achieving Alignment Throughout Your Dissertation
PART II. CONTENT AND PROCESS: A CHAPTER-BY-CHAPTER ROAD MAP
6. Introduction to Your Study
7. Developing and Presenting Your Literature Review
8. Presenting Methodology and Research Approach
9. Analyzing Data and Reporting Findings
10. Analyzing, Interpreting, and Synthesizing Findings
11. Drawing Trustworthy Conclusions and Presenting Actionable Recommendations
PART III. NEARING COMPLETION
12. Some Final Technical Considerations
13. Defense Preparation and Beyond
Afterword
Appendices
References
Author Index
Subject Index
Supplements
Student Study Site
· Downloadable templates and appendices from the book include charts, tables, and other dissertation tools.
· EXCLUSIVE! Access to certain full-text SAGE journal articles that have been carefully selected for each chapter.
· 101 Questions and Answers provide further insight from Dr. Linda Bloomberg.
· Additional online dissertation resources assist in organizing and developing your manuscript.
“This book is a ‘must have’ for all doctoral students from their acceptance into a program until they upload their finished dissertation to their institutional library. Forget Agatha Christie; they should keep this on their bed side table until it is dog-eared and they have graduated.”
Western University
“I will continue to use Completing Your Qualitative Dissertation until I find a better text, and that just does not seem likely. The authors’ writing is straightforward; they write as academics, from an academic bent, yet write practically for doctoral candidates who need guidance, a "road map" of how to complete their dissertation.
Gonzaga University
“An excellent resource for doctoral students! The authors take the fear of writing a dissertation, and break down each component into manageable tasks that once completed will help students deliver a scholarly research project: a project that they will be proud to defend!”
California Baptist University
