The qualitative dissertation
Subtitle: a guide for students and faculty
By: Maria Piantanida, Noreen B. Garman.
Contributors: Garman, Noreen B.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Corwin Press; Corwin
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Thousand Oaks, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9781412951074; 9781412951081
Subjects: Dissertations, Academic; Research -- Methodology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Coming to study; title: On the deliberative nature of the dissertation; title: Meanings of the dissertation; title: Facing the dissertation; title: Orienting oneself to interpretive inquiry; title: Situating oneself in the inquiry; title: Rethinking the concept of method; title: Rethinking the concept of data; title: Moving from the experiential to the theoretic; title: Developing ideas for the dissertation proposal; title: Crafting an interpretive dissertation proposal; title: Proposing the dissertation study; title: Living with the study; title: Entering into public discourse? the dissertation meeting; title: Life after the dissertation.