Contents: Foreword. Understanding by Finishing: The End Is the Beginning. Understanding by Beginning: What Does a Qualitative Dissertation Look Like? Understanding at the Beginning: Selecting and Working With a Committee and Advisor. Understanding by Proposing: Preparing and Defending. Supporting Understanding: Maximizing Resources. Understanding by Focusing: Ownership, Autobiography, Ethics. Understanding by Writing: Voice, "Emotional Journey," Journals. Understanding by Doing: Methodology, Analysis, and So Forth. Understanding by Finishing: Defining "The End." Understanding by Ending: Beginning With Endings. Appendices: About the Research Correspondents. Sample Tables of Contents. Barbara's Letter, Continued.
Judith M. Meloy
"A fine update and expansion of the original volume....All
inquirers struggle with common questions. What am I writing? Who am
I writing for? How am I supposed to write this? Why should I do it
anyhow? This book reveals the experiences of novice researchers as
they grapple with these questions on their journeys through
particular inquiries....In this second edition novices' concerns
are conceptual as well as logistical. Meloy demonstrates how
research is political, social, cultural, and personal, as well as
theoretical and practical. Her participants provide insights into
both the challenges and the satisfactions of qualitative
inquiry....In addition to being an empathetic representation of
novice inquiry, it is also a fine instructional guide. Its
organization and focus convey the crucial decision points in
research with examples of how people have made those decisions. It
is a fine supplement to those textbooks that discuss decision
alternatives but offer less guidance to threading a way through
them."
—Judith Preissle
University of Georgia"For graduate students seeking advice on the
art and science of preparing a dissertation, this book offers a
medley of testimonials to the process as part rite of passage, part
finding one's voice, part bildungs roman, part socio-political act,
part intellectual adventure."
—Thomas A. Schwandt
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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