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This book tackles the task of improving academic scholarship generally and dissertation expectations specifically.
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Table of Contents
Preface
Part 1: The Big Picture of Scholarly Research
Chapter 1: Who is Affected by the Misdirection of Academic Scholarship? How are Harvard, Fordham, Southern New Hampshire, and the University of Phoenix doing we might ask?
Chapter 2: What are contingent faculty? Do they have anything to do with scholarly research?
Chapter 3: What is scholarly research anyway?" Professors do it but what are they doing?
Chapter 4: When does Scholarly Research Achieve its Highest Satisfaction? Do I really want to keep on doing this stuff?
Chapter 5: Is scholarly research an affliction weakening the academy? Perhaps an as-of-yet unclassified disease?
Chapter 6: Why are dissertations the tipping point for scholarly research? Is this really where it all starts?
Part 2: Reforming the Doctoral Dissertation
Chapter 7: Do you have the smarts to do scholarly research? Are weaklings allowed in this club?
Chapter 8: Why is a dissertation the starting point of academic scholarship? Do you need to know a about validity, reliability, and that other stuff?
Chapter 9: Why are we fussing about data, information, and knowledge? Is it worth our time and trouble?
Chapter 10: Where can you find hints and tips for writing a dissertation? Don't you want to do it right the first time?
Chapter 11: Do scholarly researchers have their own language? Where is a translator when we need one?
Chapter 12: Does a quantitative or qualitative dissertation make more sense? Do you want to know the answer now or after you attempt it?
Chapter 13: How does sampling produce valid findings? Does anybody believe what we just learned?
Chapter 14: Why are limitations as important as findings? Do we need to explain that which we didn't learn?
Part 3: Candidates Only -- Practical Tips for Writing Dissertations
Chapter 15: Why is a dissertation like flying a fighter jet? Is it enough to take off or do want to be sure you can land?
Chapter 16: What is the dilemma of the dissertation topic? Why is it so important to resolve it?
Chapter 17: How can an Advisor Help Create a Workable Proposal? Do we have any tips or tricks to share with the candidates?
Chapter 18: We know corruption is bad but Is it a suitable topic for a doctoral dissertation? How should we decide?
Chapter 19: Have you Heard any Good Dissertation Stories Lately? Would you like One to Finish this Journey?
Chapter 20: How should you Structure a Dissertation? Is it Important to know where you are going?
About the author
John “Jack” Hampton is a professor at St. Peter’s University and a former dean of the schools of business at Seton Hall and Connecticut State universities. He is the author of multiple enterprise risk management books with the American Management Association and a series of higher education books with Rowman & Littlefield.
Summary
This book tackles the task of improving academic scholarship generally and dissertation expectations specifically.
