Ph.D. Realities: The Dissertation Mentor

In qualitative and mixed methods you need to discuss your role as the researcher. Why? Because you are going to be doing the interviews,...

This section introduces the research design of your study. Each of the types of design has slightly different requirements for this sect...

Chapter 3 is going to be much trickier to explain than the previous discussions, because each research method has slightly different req...

The Chapter 2 summary is very important; it should be much more than a quick overview. Think of this section as where the reader can go ...

We have talked quite a bit about organizing the literature review (see the index for dates of posts), but a few key points to keep in mi...

In Chapter 2, you will be expanding on the theories you mentioned in Chapter 1. This is where you go into the background of the theory, wh...

The next section in chapter 2 is the literature search strategy. This section will go easily if you kept track of all of your literature s...