Description
Addressing the key challenges facing doctoral students, this text 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. Author Linda Dale Bloomberg blends the conceptual, theoretical, and practical, so that the book becomes a dissertation in action—a logical and cohesive explanation and illustration of content and process. The Fifth Edition includes a greater focus on how qualitative traditions or genres can encompass a critical social justice agenda, and this broader coverage allows the book to have wider application for dissertation work within the constantly evolving field of qualitative inquiry. This edition also addresses some significant changes in the field that have come about since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, impacting how to conduct dissertation research both ethically and credibly by adopting new and innovative methods and approaches. A greater focus on ethics, rigor, researcher positionality, and reflexivity is highlighted and interwoven throughout.
Table of Contents
Part I: Taking Charge of Yourself and Your Work
1. A Complete Dissertation: Viewing the Big Picture
2. Gearing Up: There Is Method in the Madness
3. Choosing a Qualitative Research Design
4. Ensuring Rigor and Ethics in Qualitative Research
5. Achieving Alignment Throughout Your Dissertation
Part II: Content and Process: A Chapter-by-Chapter Road Map
6. Introduction to Your Study
7. Developing and Presenting Your Literature Review
8. Presenting Research Methodology, Design, and Methods
9. Analyzing Data and Reporting Findings
10. Qualitative Meta-Synthesis: Analyzing and Interpreting Findings
11. Drawing Trustworthy Conclusions and Presenting Actionable Recommendations
Part III: Nearing Completion
12. Some Final Technical Considerations
13. Defense Preparation and Beyond
