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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 | |