Developing Quality Dissertations in the Social Sciences - A Graduate Student's Guide

Informationen zum Autor Barbara E. Lovitts is an independent higher education researcher. She was formerly Senior Program Officer in the Center for the Advancement of Scholarship on Engineering Education at the National Academy of Engineering, and is the author of Leaving the Ivory Tower: The Causes and Consequences of Departure from Doctoral Study. She has worked at the University of Maryland, the American Institutes for Research, the National Science Foundation, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Ellen L. Wert , a former a program officer at The Pew Charitable Trusts, is a freelance writer and editor who has been involved with national efforts to improve U.S. graduate education for nearly two decades, including Preparing Future Faculty, the Carnegie Initiative on the Doctorate. and the Survey on Doctoral Education and Career Preparation. Past clients include the American Association for Higher Education, The Brookings Institution, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, and the Education Policy Institute Klappentext This is one of three short booklets designed to be given to graduate students as they begin their studies. These booklets explain the purposes of the dissertation and the criteria by which it will be assessed. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Tables; Preface. To the Faculty; Preface. to the Student; 1. Identifying the Purpose of the Dissertation; 2. Understanding Originality and Significance ; 3. Aiming for Excellence in the Dissertation; 4. Maintaining Consistent Quality Within the Dissertation; 5. Achieving Excellence; Appendix A. Tasks of the Social Sciences Division; Appendix B. Advice for Writing a Social Sciences Dissertation; Making the Implicit Explicit. About the Study; About the Authors.

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• Authors: Barbara E Lovitts, Barbara E. Lovitts, Lovitts Barbara E., Not Available (NA), Ellen L Wert, Ellen L. Wert
• Publisher: Stylus Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.12.2008
• EAN: 9781579222611
• ISBN: 978-1-57922-261-1
• No. of pages: 48
• Series: Developing Quality Dissertatio; Developing Quality Dissertations; Developing Quality Dissertations; Developing Quality Dissertatio
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; Teaching of a specific subject, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Higher education, tertiary education, Educational: Citizenship and social education, Educational: Citizenship & social education, JUVENILE NONFICTION / Social Topics / General, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / General