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Acknowledgments | |
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Preparing to Go: The Dissertation Journey | |
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Can a Dissertation Really Be a Trip? | |
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Packing Your Bags | |
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Enjoyment | |
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Doability | |
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Competence | |
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Agency | |
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Support | |
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Our Guarantees | |
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Your Travel Agents | |
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How to Use This Guide | |
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The Journey before You: 29 Steps | |
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Our Timetable | |
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Yeah, But... | |
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Dissertation Checklist | |
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Planning the Trip: The Conceptual Conversation | |
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Selecting and Orienting a Partner | |
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Asking and Answering Questions | |
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Identifying Key Pieces | |
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Developing Your Itinerary: The Preproposal | |
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Formulating Your Research Question | |
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Criteria for a Good Research Question | |
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Multiple Research Questions | |
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Selecting Your Data | |
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Aligning Your Research Question and Your Data | |
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Identifying Your Method of Data Collection | |
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Identifying Your Method of Data Analysis | |
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Identifying the Literature to Review | |
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Identifying the Significance of Your Study | |
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Identifying Your Chapters | |
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Writing Your Preproposal | |
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Assessing Your Decisions | |
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Committing to the Preproposal with Your Advisor | |
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Advice from Other Travelers: The Literature Review | |
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Coding the Literature | |
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Sorting Your Codes | |
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Checking Your Codes | |
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Creating Your Conceptual Schema | |
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Writing It Up | |
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Getting There: The Dissertation Proposal | |
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Introduction | |
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Research Question | |
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Definition of Terms | |
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Literature Review | |
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Research Design | |
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Data | |
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History or Context | |
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Procedures | |
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Data Collection | |
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Data Analysis | |
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Assumptions | |
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Significance of the Study | |
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Outline of the Study | |
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Recap: Sections of a Dissertation Proposal | |
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Approval of the Proposal | |
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Things to See and Do: Data Collection and Analysis | |
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Collecting Your Data | |
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Creating Codable Data | |
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Identifying Your Unit(s) of Analysis | |
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Coding Your Data | |
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Sorting Your Codes | |
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Checking Your Codes | |
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Creating Your Explanatory Schema | |
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Writing It Up | |
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Making the Most of Your Travels: The Last Chapter Plus | |
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Summary | |
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Interpretation of Findings | |
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Limitations | |
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Suggestions for Future Research | |
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Finishing Up | |
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Useful Phrases: Writing and Editing | |
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Fast Writing | |
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Turning Off the Screen | |
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Making Notes to Self | |
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Writing with Headings | |
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Skipping Around | |
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Keeping the Ideas Flowing | |
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Slow Revising | |
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Editing | |
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Proofreading | |
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Computer-Aided Proofreading | |
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Hard Copy Proofreading | |
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Travelogue: The Dissertation Defense | |
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Preparing for Your Defense | |
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The Defense Itself | |
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Following Your Defense | |
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Making the Best Use of Your Guide: Advisor Advising | |
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Asking Appropriately | |
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Agreeing on a Vision | |
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Expectations about Roles | |
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Expectations about Advising | |
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Replication Model | |
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Apprenticeship Model | |
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Cocreation Model | |
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Expectations about Dissertations | |
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Articulating Needs | |
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Conceptual Conversation | |
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Ground Rules | |
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Information about the Dissertation Process | |
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Information about Research and Writing | |
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Information about the Dissertation Defense | |
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Enacting Professionalism | |
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Assessing Your Relationship | |
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Understanding Your Advisor's Perspective | |
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Framing Issues Collaboratively | |
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Protecting Your Advisor's Face | |
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Planning for Action | |
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Applying Productive Chicanery | |
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Performing Completion | |
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Asking for Help from a Mediator | |
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Adding a Coadvisor | |
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Switching Advisors | |
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Avoiding Delays and Annoyances: Enacting the Scholar Role | |
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Incomplete-Scholar Roles | |
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Housekeeper | |
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Model Employee | |
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Undocumented Worker | |
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Patient | |
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Good Student | |
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Proxy Critic | |
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Executor | |
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Maverick | |
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Enacting the Scholar Role: Writing Regularly | |
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Writing on a Schedule | |
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Focusing on Successes | |
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Index | |
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About the Authors | |