Completing Your Doctoral Dissertation/Master&#039;s Thesis in Two Semesters or Less

Evelyn Hunt Ogden

doi:10.5771/9781461648444

Summary

A long-term bestseller, this book is a pragmatic step-by-step guide to completing you dissertation or thesis during two semesters, in fifty workdays or less. It covers advisor and topic selection, proposal development, data collection and organization, available assistance, writing, and defense. The author demystifies the process and provides you with essential guidance through the rites of passage that are an integral part of completing your degree.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 1997
ISBN-Print: 978-1-56676-035-5
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4616-4844-4
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 139
Product type: Book Titles

1. Table of Contents No access
2. List of Lists, Tests, Forms, and Charts No access
3. Acknowledgements No access
4. Introduction No access
1. The Odds of Success! No access
2. Winning the Game—Beating the ODDS! No access
3. What a Dissertation is No access
4. The Dissertation Myths—"Once Upon a Time...?" No access
5. What a Dissertation is not No access
6. Determining your Dissertation Personality Quotient No access
7. You Can Do It No access
8. Understanding the Rite of Passage No access
9. Unlocking the Doctoral Gates No access
10. Setting the Date for your Oral Defense and Graduation No access
11. The Fifty-Day or Twenty-five-Weekend, Two-Semester Dissertation Schedule No access
12. Summary No access
1. Your Choice/Their Choice No access
2. The Role of the Dissertation Advisor No access
3. The Role of Dissertation Committee Members No access
4. The Non-Roles of the Advisor and Committee—Adjusting the Fantasy to the Reality No access
5. The Good Advisor/Committee Test and Scoring Key No access
6. Researching the Pool of Advisors and Committee Members No access
7. Selecting your Advisor and Committee No access
8. Care Instructions for Advisors and Committee Members No access
9. Summary No access
1. The "Right Topic" Selection Criteria—Forget Interesting, Go for Tolerably Non-Boring No access
2. To Experiment or not to Experiment? No access
3. "Recommendations for Further Study"—A GOLD MINE of Topics No access
4. Mining Accepted Journal Articles for Acceptable Topics No access
5. Using your Current Career to Facilitate your Dissertation No access
6. Advancing your Career Potential Quotient by Selecting the Right Topic No access
7. Selecting a Topic that Someone Else Wants Researched—Free Resources No access
8. Summary No access
1. Dissertation Costs or the Longer it Takes, the More it Costs No access
2. Word Processing, Form, and "Connie Comma" No access
3. You are a Researcher—Use the Phone, Hop a Plane No access
4. The Statistical Guru—A First Stop No access
5. To Quit, to Take a Leave, to Take a Sabbatical, to Work? No access
6. Paid and Free Per-Diem Assistants No access
7. Finding Someone to Pay you to Do your Dissertation No access
8. The Editor No access
9. Remedial Action—When your Advisor Moves or you have to Move No access
10. The Paid or Reliable Volunteer "Nudge" No access
11. Summary No access
1. Designing the Dissertation No access
2. Are They Related or are They Different, what is the Question? No access
3. What you're not Going to Ask—Limiting the Study No access
4. The General Design of the Study No access
5. The What and How of Data Collection No access
6. Determining How you Will Get the Answers No access
7. Getting the Answers-Decisions about Collecting Data No access
8. Analyzing your Data—The Oversimplified Statistical Decision Guidelines No access
9. Determining How your Conclusions Will Be Drawn No access
10. Why Do it?—Building the Rationale No access
11. Preparing the Initial Proposal Prospectus No access
12. The Proposal Format No access
13. Planning the Advisor/Advisee Proposal Interaction No access
14. Summary No access
1. Getting Organized for the Final Push No access
2. Planning the Final Attack—You Can Do More Than One Thing at a Time No access
3. Twenty Days to Done! No access
4. Touching Base with the University, your Advisor, your Committee No access
5. Getting Step-by-Step Advisor and Committee Approval—Surprises are for Birthdays No access
6. Summary No access
1. Variations on the Theme No access
2. The Successful Defense No access
3. Predicting the Questions to Be Asked in the Defense No access
4. Preparing the Answers for your Defense No access
5. A Last Look at the Competition No access
6. The Final Preparation No access
7. The Defense—Listen, Respond, Shut Up No access
8. Summary No access
1. Celebrating the Blessed Event No access
2. The Last Revision No access
3. Postpartum Depression No access
4. Summary No access
References No access Pages 137 - 138
About the Author No access Pages 139 - 139