Dissertation Practice - A Journal for Learning

This is an interactive resource that promotes journaling to engender key dissertation practices, through activities and exercises. It uses the privacy of journal entries to promote thought, comfort and familiarity. This personal context and the book's open prompts, allows students to engage in extended and alternative thinking.

List of contents

1. Writing as a Convergence of Thinking, Talking, and Reading
2. Practices for the Problem Statement
3. Writing the Literature Review
4. Writing the Methodology
5. Writing up Findings
6. Writing the Discussion
7. Reader-Based Writing: Reviewing, Revising, Sharpening, and Editing

About the author

Diane Bennett Durkin is an Adjunct Professor at UCLA, USA. She has taught on UCLA’s Educational Leadership Program (ELP) since 2000, and has guided up to 600 students through the dissertation process.

Summary

This is an interactive resource that promotes journaling to engender key dissertation practices, through activities and exercises. It uses the privacy of journal entries to promote thought, comfort and familiarity. This personal context and the book’s open prompts, allows students to engage in extended and alternative thinking.

Product details

• Authors: Diane Bennett Durkin
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.10.2024
• EAN: 9781032858005
• ISBN: 978-1-03-285800-5
• No. of pages: 186
• Weight: 320 g
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Research, STUDY AIDS / Study Guides, EDUCATION / Research, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Methodology, STUDY AIDS / Graduate School Guides, Study & learning skills: general, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Higher education, tertiary education, Study and learning skills: general, Research methods: general, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / Social Science