Guide to the Successful Thesis and Dissertation: A Handbook For Students And Faculty, Fifth Edition (Books in Library and Information Science)
Language: English
Pages: 358
ISBN: 0824742885
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Augmented with a new bibliography and streamlined appendices, the Guide to the Successful Thesis and Dissertation, Fifth Edition views the valuable addition of references to university research libraries and advanced information on websites, online searches, electronic literature, and other modern computer methods as crucial for the successful completion of any T/D. This popular text guide features new references and computer-oriented resources for every stage in the creation of honors and master's theses and dissertations and refers to current T/D statistics, federal regulations, ethical codes, and copyright issues and legalities involved in information gathering and study conduct.
investigation into a subject in order to discover or revise facts, theories, applications, etc.” (Flexner, 1987, p. 1219). It is only fitting that the specific nature of T/D work, and how research is defined, should depend on the kinds of problems that need to be investigated to enhance the particular body of knowledge of concern in each discipline. No one research approach is inherently better than another. Rather, there are research methods that match some problems well and others poorly. For
research questions or hypotheses that you have developed on the subject(s), but recognize that neither the student nor the faculty member expects that they are in final form. The most important point is to show that a serious effort has been made to prepare 38 Chapter 2 for the interview, and that the student has accepted responsibility for the initiative. Still a third effective variation on this approach is to study T/Ds recently completed under the faculty member’s direction. The majority
student may have little interest in it and may feel inadequate to tackle it. The possibility of conflict of interest arises, too. Will the study become an article or part of a book for the advisor? Is the topic chosen to perform work that the advisor is unwilling to do? Such suspicions inhibit work and endanger relationships. If the suspicions are confirmed and the activity is allowed to continue, one wonders what the real purpose of the dissertation is in the eyes of the advisor, the faculty,
concerned, probably the first was the Master of Pedagogy, also offered in 1890 by New York University. Incidentally, the Bachelor of Pedagogy degree had a brief period of popularity from about 1900 to 1936 as an indicator of graduation from undergraduate teacher preparation. The Doctor of Education degree was introduced in 1920 by Harvard University. It was intended for practicing educators. In 1933 another new degree was born at Harvard University, the Master of Arts in Teaching. It was to be
We join Lalumie`re (1993) in encouraging writers to be specific about the basis for a citation so as to avoid misleading the reader as to the weight attached to a cited report. When specifying a reference, always seek to cite the actual source. If an article you are reading contains a pertinent quotation from another source, there is a temptation sometimes to use the quotation in your own manuscript as though you had found it yourself in the original source. First, that would be dishonest. It