Writing Strategies for the Education Dissertation

ISBN-13: 9780367627034 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 144 str.

Diane Bennett Durkin

Opis

This book focuses on best practice in writing for the Education dissertation. It concentrates on the processes of writing as thinking. These processes account for the very necessary uncertainty, decision-making, brainstorming, draft writing, and revision experiences when one writes about something new.

Spis treści

1. De-mythologizing the Process: Changing One’s Mindset  2. The Problem Statement: Writing Processes  3. Writing Strategies for the Literature Review  4. Writing the Methods Chapter, Getting Past Preliminary Orals, and Getting Started  5. Collecting and Analyzing Data, then Writing up Results and Findings  6. Writing up the Discussion: Conclusions and Recommendations  7. Revising the Dissertation as a Whole

O autorze

Diane Bennett Durkin has taught critical thinking and writing at UCLA for over 30 years, publishing textbooks that merge disciplines, and helping education doctoral students understand and use writing processes to generate, organize, and communicate their ideas.