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The Dissertation: From Beginning to End

• Peter Lyons , H. Doueck
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Completing Your Qualitative Dissertation: A Road Map From Beginning to End

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This site is intended to enhance your use of  Completing Your Qualitative Dissertation, Fourth Edition,  by Linda Bloomberg and Marie Volpe. Please note that all resources on this site are especially geared toward maximizing your understanding of the material. 

Addressing one of the key challenges facing doctoral students, Completing Your Qualitative Dissertation fills a gap in qualitative literature by offering comprehensive guidance and practical tools for navigating each step in the qualitative dissertation journey, including the planning, research, and writing phases. Blending the conceptual, theoretical, and practical, the book becomes a dissertation in action—a logical and cohesive explanation and illustration of content and process. The Fourth Edition maintains key features that distinguish its unique approach and has been thoroughly updated and expanded throughout to reflect and address recent developments in the field.

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We gratefully acknowledge Linda Bloomberg and Marie Volpe for writing an excellent text. Special thanks are due to Linda Bloomberg for creating the materials on this site. 

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Many otherwise strong doctoral students get stuck at the dissertation stage, but this trusty guide takes students from the early planning phase to finishing the final draft. It contains straightforward advice for each stage of the dissertation process: selecting a chair, completing the literature review, developing a hypothesis, selecting a study sample and appropriate measures, managing and analyzing both quantitative and qualitative data, establishing good writing habits, and overcoming obstacles to completing the dissertation on schedule. Practical guidelines, tips and strategies, and action steps checklists in each chapter make this a handy pocket guide for students as well as advisors seeking a comprehensive, unintimidating road map to the social work dissertation.

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Completing your qualitative dissertation : a roadmap from beginning to end.

The doctoral dissertation is academia’s Mount Everest—a massive undertaking, requiring discipline, stamina and emotional reserves. Thus, as Marie Volpe and Linda Dale Bloomberg, both faculty members in TC’s Adult Learning and Leadership Program and TC graduates, note in Completing Your Qualitative Dissertation: A Roadmap from Beginning to End , every university and college has a significant number of what are commonly referred to as All-But-Dissertation (ABD) students who dwell in the purgatory of the uncompleted thesis.

Volpe and Bloomberg focus on qualitative research methods, in part because there is a growing interest among academics in using them. In fact, when Volpe recently conducted 11 lectures in East Asia about the book, she found great interest among graduate students and professors alike in qualitative research methods, even though academics traditionally have been quantitative researchers.

The book is geared to doctoral students in the social sciences who are about to embark on the dissertation process or who are underway. It is, in effect, “a dissertation in action.” A real research problem is laid out in Chapter 1 and is carried through all subsequent chapters. To illustrate each step in the process, the authors identify the problem statement, develop the research purpose and research questions, formulate appropriate data collection methods, analyze and synthesize data, and present conclusions and recommendations. Carrying one research problem throughout the book’s three parts allows the reader to follow the same idea as it threads through the steps required to complete the research and write the dissertation.

Part One constitutes a broad introduction to the complex task of writing a dissertation , and offers an overview of the steps involved in preparing for the dissertation process. Included are discussions around becoming organized, identifying and developing a researchable topic, choosing an appropriate qualitative research tradition, selecting advisers, developing the proposal, guidelines for good writing and identifying resources.

Part Two provides comprehensive instructions on the content of each dissertation chapter, accompanied by illustrations of what a completed chapter should look like, using the specific research problem addressed in this book as an example.

Part Three addresses the final stages of the dissertation process, including checking alignment among key elements, selecting an appropriate title, assembling the manuscript, proofreading and editing, choosing a defense committee and preparing for a successful defense, and considering possible avenues for the presentation and publication of the work.

The book describes the different techniques employed by qualitative researchers (case study, ethnography, phenomenology, etc.) and guides the doctoral candidate through each chapter, from literature review to data collection and through to the defense. Throughout, the authors acknowledge that the challenges involved are both practical (How will I find appropriate data?) and ineffable (Am I committed enough to make this happen?)

Completing one’s dissertation, they write, is above all “a matter of tenacity, perseverance, and patience”—and the emotional armor to withstand the “sense of confusion and feelings of inadequacy, incompetence, and frustration” that can bedevil a writer mired in a fourth, fifth or never-ending draft.

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Completing Your Qualitative Dissertation: A Road Map From Beginning to End Fourth Edition

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• Edition Fourth
• Publisher SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication date November 30, 2018
• Language English
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Dr. Linda Dale Bloomberg  (EdD Adult Education and Organizational Learning, Columbia University; M.A. Counseling Psychology, Organizational Psychology, Adult Education) has over two decades of experience in non-profit, Higher Education, and Online Learning. Her teaching and research experience includes instruction in graduate programs at Teachers College, Columbia University, and graduate online programs at Rider University, Northcentral University, and National University. She served for four years as senior researcher for the South African Human Sciences Research Council and National Institute for Personnel Research focusing on change management, diversity initiatives, and workplace learning. Dr. Bloomberg is founder of Bloomberg Associates and ILIAD (Institute for Learning Innovations and Adult Development), and a cofounder of Columbia University’s Global Learning and Leadership Institute. She consults to numerous research and nonprofit advisory boards, and in 202O was invited to serve on the  Future Talent Council, Global Advisory Board for Faculty and Staff Development.  She is author and editor of numerous journal publications in the fields of qualitative research, leadership development, adult learning, and distance education. Her most recent book publications include Designing and  Delivering Effective Online Instruction: How to Engage Adult Learners (Teachers College Press, 2021), and the fifth edition of  Completing your Qualitative Dissertation: A Road Map from Beginning to End  (SAGE, 2023) . Dr. Bloomberg serves as dissertation chair and subject matter expert for multiple doctoral dissertation candidates, coaches higher education faculty to teach online, develops research curriculum for graduate programs, and presents regularly at national and international professional conferences on topics related to qualitative research, qualitative dissertation instruction, online learning, and professional development for online pedagogy. Linda can be reached at  https://www.linkedin.com/in/lindadalebloomberg/

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