tailieunhanh - Writing your doctoral dissertation - part 9

Tham khảo tài liệu 'writing your doctoral dissertation - part 9', ngoại ngữ, kỹ năng viết tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 5 Identifying Your Dissertation Topic and Your Research Questions The opportunity to take a topic of importance to me and concentrate on it for extended periods of time persisting with an idea and seeing how it develops over time a pure luxury and I loved it. I enjoyed doing the review of the literature. I imagined myself a great detective tracking down leads one after another. Or it was a chain reaction one article s bibliography would lead to another great source. The best was when I hit the mother lode research directly related to what I wanted to do. Before writing your dissertation you need to know what you want to research what you want to learn. A dissertation is expected to break new ground for a discipline and in the process of breaking new ground you as the researcher become proficient at conducting research. Although a common belief about research is that we do research to confirm or prove our assumptions this is inaccurate. Rather research is a process of searching repeatedly re-searching for new insights and a more comprehensive cohesive elegant theory. There are probably few if any truths immutable never-changing facts. Each research project intends to advance our knowledge getting closer to truth. All studies are limited by time if nothing else. Findings from research allow us to make potentially more accurate predictions. But predictions and hypotheses are not guarantees. See for example Search and re-search edited by Brause and Mayher 1991 for a detailed explanation of these phenomena. While each research project contributes to our growing knowledge there are qualitative differences in research studies. Not all are equally useful some are poorly conceived and conducted while others are carefully conceptualized operationalized and analyzed. You will need to decide if your study will be quick and dirty fulfilling the letter of the requirement without advancing knowledge or a serious attempt at least to contribute to our academic world. For some this