Milestone moments in getting your PhD in qualitative research

Milestone moments in getting your PhD in qualitative research / Margaret Zeegers and Deirdre Barron.

Milestone Moments in Getting your PhDin Qualitative Research is a guide for research students completing higher degrees with a focus on the importance of language and terminology of the theoretical and practical requirements of a given research program. The book responds to a lack of preparedness am...

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Main Authors: Zeegers, Margaret (Author), Barron, Deirdre (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Walthan, MA : Elsevier : Chandos Publishing, [2015]
Series:Chandos information professional series.
Subjects:
Dissertations, Academic.
Dissertations, Academic > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Qualitative research > Study and teaching.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Composition & Creative Writing.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Rhetoric.
REFERENCE > Writing Skills.
Dissertations, Academic
dissertations.
handbooks.
Academic theses
Handbooks and manuals
Academic theses.
Handbooks and manuals.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
Guides et manuels.
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover; Milestone Moments in Getting your PhD in Qualitative Research; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; About the authors; Introduction ; The purpose of this book; Level; Organization; How to use this book; Part One: Establishing the basis for the PhD ; Chapter 1: Milestone 1: Clearing the decks; Reasons for not doing your PhD; What research is; What your thesis is; Putting the proposal together; Getting the question; Concepts to be engaged; Theory; Data; Information; Knowledge; Positioning yourself as the researcher; Negotiating the supervisor; The words used.
  • Suggested readingConclusion; Chapter 2: Milestone 2: The confirmation or defense of candidature; Designing the research; Paradigm; Qualitative researcher; Taking up the qualitative; Literature review; Methodology; Method; Validity; Technique; Ethics requirements; Timetable; Budget; Oral presentation; Support groups; The words used; Words not to be used; Suggested reading; Research methodology (general); Research methodology (specific); Research method; Handling the minutiae; Conventions of writing; Inappropriate expressions; Word use; Paragraphing; Signposting.
  • Structuring the program of studyConclusion; Chapter 3: Milestone 3: Getting ethics clearance; Why ethics?; What ethics clearance is; The ethics committee; Ethics clearance and your research; Identify potential problem areas; Writing the application for ethics clearance; Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Principles of ethical research; Annotated example 1; Annotated example 1 as a model; Annotated example 2; The annotated examples as models; The words used; Approval withheld; Suggested reading; Conclusion; Part Two: Getting the PhD done.
  • Chapter 4: Milestone 4: The literature reviewThe literature review and your research; A problem area; What a literature review is; First person pronouns and active voice; Generating the reading of the literature; An annotated example; The annotated example as a model; Tensions within the literature; The body of the literature review; Tense; Using helpful software and friends; The words used; Words not to be used; Suggested reading; Conclusion; Chapter 5: Milestone 5: Methodology; Getting the methodology; Poststructuralism; Discourses; Ideology; Multiple perspectives; Critical theorists.
  • Research as a political actFeminist theorists; Foucault, Derrida, Lyotard; Reconstructionism; Social focus; Phenomenology; Human experience as text; Symbolic Interactionism; Generating knowledge; Why this and not that; An annotated example; The annotated example as a model; The words used; Words not to be used; Suggested reading; Conclusion; Chapter 6: Milestone 6: Method; Getting the method; Possible methods; Selection of method; Case study; Discursive formation; Ethnography; Document analysis; Discourse analysis; Narrative enquiry; Validity and trustworthiness; Trustworthiness techniques.

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