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| Setting Yourself up for Success: Alleviating Barriers That May Impede Your Progress | |
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| Factors that May Impede Your Success | |
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| Summary and Conclusion | |
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| Strengths and Barriers Exercise | |
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| My Thesis or Dissertation Self-Care Plan | |
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| Identifying Your Topic and Making it Researchable | |
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| The Affective Side: Focusing on Your Feelings | |
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| Factors in Selecting a Research Topic | |
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| Finding Research Topics | |
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| Developing a Topic into a Researchable Study | |
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| Further Refining a Topic by Identifying Initial Research Questions | |
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| Grant Support for Graduate Research | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Developing a Focus to our Research Topic: An Exercise | |
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| Overview: Setting The Stage For The Thesis Or Dissertation | |
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| The Funnel: An Essential Writing Tool | |
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| Key Elements of the Overview Chapter | |
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| Checklist for Chapter One of the Thesis or Dissertation | |
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| Searching And Reviewing The Relevant Literature: Finding What Has Come Before | |
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| The Search Process: A Highly Specialized and Non-linear Process | |
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| Resources to Conduct a Literature Search | |
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| Organizing the Results of your Search | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Research Hypotheses: The Motor That Drives the Study | |
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| Specifying Research Questions | |
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| Types of Research Questions | |
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| Examples of Research Questions within a Programmatic Line of Research | |
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| Specifying Research Hypotheses | |
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| Writing Research Questions and Hypotheses | |
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| Summarizing the Literature to Establish Research Questions and Hypotheses | |
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| Research Questions and Analyses | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Writing Your Literature Review: Integration and Case Building | |
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| Structural Elements in Writing a Research Review | |
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| Describing, Analyzing and Synthesizing the Literature within the Text | |
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| Writing Style and Process | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Exercise: Synthesizing Information across Studies | |
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| Checklist for Chapter Two of the Thesis or Dissertation | |
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| Quantitative Methods: Mapping Your Research Plan | |
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| Where to Begin: The Chapter Roadmap | |
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| Participants | |
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| Instruments | |
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| Procedures | |
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| Statistical Analyses | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Checklist for Chapter Three of the Thesis or Dissertation | |
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| Qualitative Methods: On the Road to Exploring the Unknown (co-authored with Yu-Wei Wang) | |
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| Before Telling you the Story: What is Qualitative Research | |
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| Definition of qualitative research | |
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| Myths and facts about qualitative research | |
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| Where does this story start? Paradigms: The ground rules | |
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| Exclusion is Easier, Inclusion is Better: Diversifying Samples (co-authored with M | |
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| Advantages of Diversifying Samples | |
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| Drawbacks to Diversifying Samples | |
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| Advice for Drawing the Circle Bigger | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Working with Your Advisor and Committee | |
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| Working with the advisor | |
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| Formation of the committee | |
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| Contacting potential committee members | |
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| Level of contact with committee members outside of the meeting | |
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| Providing copies of the proposal to the committee and scheduling the meeting | |
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| Preparing for the proposal meeting | |
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| Data Collection and Analysis Scheduling and Presenting the Defense | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Demonstrating Integrity and Professionalism in Your Research | |
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| Attitudes Toward Conducting Research | |
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| Reflecting on Each Phase of the Research Process | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Conducting Quantitative Analyses and Presenting Your Results (co-authored with Dong-gwi Lee and Hyun-joo Park) | |
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| Where to Begin: The Chapter Roadmap | |
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| Common Preliminary Components of the Results Chapter | |
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| Writing the Results chapter | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Checklist for Chapter Four of the Thesis or Dissertation | |
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| Useful references for other statistical techniques | |
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| Qualitative Results: The Meaning Making Process (co-authored with Yu-Wei Wang) | |
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| Grounded Theory | |
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| Consensual Qualitative Research | |
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| Phenomenology/Hermeneutics | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| The Discussion: Making the Data Sing | |
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| Affective Reactions | |
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| Most Important Elements of a Discussion Chapter | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Checklist for Chapter Five of the Thesis or Dissertation | |
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| Citations and Reference Lists: The Devil is in the Details | |
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| Style of Citing References in the Text | |
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| Common Problems in Combing References | |
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| Common Reference List Errors | |
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| Utilizing Bibliographic Computer Programs for Your References | |
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| Summary and Conclusions | |
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| A Sample Reference List | |
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| Publishing the Thesis or Dissertation | |
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| Affective Reactions | |
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| Myths About the Writing Process | |
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| Steps on the Road to Professional Publication | |
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| Common Problems in Manuscripts Submitted for Publication | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| References | |