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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Surviving your dissertation</title>
    <subTitle>a comprehensive guide to content and process</subTitle>
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    <namePart>Rudestam, Kjell Erik.</namePart>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Newton, Rae R.</namePart>
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    <dateIssued encoding="marc">2015</dateIssued>
    <edition>Fourth edition..</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>xi, 362 pages ; 23 cm</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>Part I: Getting Started
Chapter 1: The Research Process
Chapter 2: Selecting a Suitable Topic
Chapter 3: Methods of Inquiry: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches
PART II: Working with the Content: The Dissertation Chapters
Chapter 4: Literature Review and Statement of the Problem
Chapter 5: The Method Chapter: Describing Your Research Plan
Chapter 6: Presenting the Results of Quantitative Studies
Chapter 7: Presenting the Results of Qualitative Research
Chapter 8: Discussion
PART III: Working with Process: What You Need to Know to Make the Dissertation Easier
Chapter 9: Overcoming Barriers: Becoming an Expert While Controlling Your Own Destiny
Chapter 10: Writing
Chapter 11: How to Complete Your Dissertation Using Online Data Access and Collection
Chapter 12: Guidelines for the Presentation of Numbers in the Dissertation
Chapter 13: Informed Consent and Other Ethical Concerns</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Kjell Erik Rudestam, Fielding Graduate University, Rae R. Newton, Fielding Graduate University.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references and indexes.</note>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Dissertations, Academic</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Report writing</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Research</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">LB2369 .R83 2015</classification>
  <classification authority="ddc" edition="23">808.066 378 RUD N</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">9781452260976 (pbk. : alk. paper)</identifier>
  <identifier type="lccn">2014002905</identifier>
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