Milestone Moments in Getting Your PhD in Qualitative Research.

Front Cover -- Milestone Moments in Getting your PhD in Qualitative Research -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- About the authors -- Introduction -- The purpose of this book -- Level -- Organization -- How to use this book -- Part One: Establishing the basis for the PhD -- Chapter 1: Milestone 1: Clearing the decks -- Reasons for not doing your PhD -- What research is -- What your thesis is -- Putting the proposal together -- Getting the question -- Concepts to be engaged -- Theory -- Data -- Information -- Knowledge -- Positioning yourself as the researcher -- Negotiating the supervisor -- The words used -- Suggested reading -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2: Milestone 2: The confirmation or defense of candidature -- Designing the research -- Paradigm -- Qualitative researcher -- Taking up the qualitative -- Literature review -- Methodology -- Method -- Validity -- Technique -- Ethics requirements -- Timetable -- Budget -- Oral presentation -- Support groups -- The words used -- Words not to be used -- Suggested reading -- Research methodology (general) -- Research methodology (specific) -- Research method -- Handling the minutiae -- Conventions of writing -- Inappropriate expressions -- Word use -- Paragraphing -- Signposting -- Structuring the program of study -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3: Milestone 3: Getting ethics clearance -- Why ethics? -- What ethics clearance is -- The ethics committee -- Ethics clearance and your research -- Identify potential problem areas -- Writing the application for ethics clearance -- Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Principles of ethical research -- Annotated example 1 -- Annotated example 1 as a model -- Annotated example 2 -- The annotated examples as models -- The words used -- Approval withheld -- Suggested reading -- Conclusion.

Part Two: Getting the PhD done -- Chapter 4: Milestone 4: The literature review -- The literature review and your research -- A problem area -- What a literature review is -- First person pronouns and active voice -- Generating the reading of the literature -- An annotated example -- The annotated example as a model -- Tensions within the literature -- The body of the literature review -- Tense -- Using helpful software and friends -- The words used -- Words not to be used -- Suggested reading -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5: Milestone 5: Methodology -- Getting the methodology -- Poststructuralism -- Discourses -- Ideology -- Multiple perspectives -- Critical theorists -- Research as a political act -- Feminist theorists -- Foucault, Derrida, Lyotard -- Reconstructionism -- Social focus -- Phenomenology -- Human experience as text -- Symbolic Interactionism -- Generating knowledge -- Why this and not that -- An annotated example -- The annotated example as a model -- The words used -- Words not to be used -- Suggested reading -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6: Milestone 6: Method -- Getting the method -- Possible methods -- Selection of method -- Case study -- Discursive formation -- Ethnography -- Document analysis -- Discourse analysis -- Narrative enquiry -- Validity and trustworthiness -- Trustworthiness techniques -- Triangulation -- Bracketing -- Reflexivity -- Emics and etics of research -- Emic: ethnography and insider researcher -- An annotated example -- The annotated example as a model -- The words used -- Suggested reading -- Research method (specific) -- On validity -- Conclusion -- Chapter 7: Milestone 7: Technique -- Interview -- Focus group -- Survey -- Observation -- Field notes -- Wording or phrasing of documents -- Diaries/journals -- Photographs/film -- An annotated example -- The annotated example as a model -- The words used.

Suggested reading -- Conclusion -- Chapter 8: Milestone 8: Collecting the data -- Getting to data collection -- Data collection and methodology -- Data collection and method -- Data collection and techniques -- Data collection instruments -- An annotated example -- The annotated example as a model -- The words used -- Suggested reading -- Conclusion -- Chapter 9: Milestone 9: Analyzing the data -- Getting to data analysis -- Data analysis and methodology -- An annotated example -- The annotated example as a model -- The words used -- Suggested reading -- Conclusion -- Chapter 10: Milestone 10: Drawing conclusions and making recommendations -- Why draw conclusions and make recommendations? -- Getting to the conclusions and recommendations -- An annotated example -- The annotated example as a model -- The words used -- Suggested reading -- Conclusion -- Chapter 11: Milestone 11: Finishing, submitting, and examination -- Bookending the thesis -- Completing the thesis and submitting -- Viva voce -- Conventions observed -- Editing and formatting -- After examination -- Suggested reading -- Conclusion -- Chapter 12: Milestone 12: Publishing out of your thesis -- Purpose of publishing -- Publication type -- Genre -- Possibilities for writing -- Methodology -- Method -- Techniques -- Literature review -- Ethics -- Validity -- Research journeys -- Possibilities for publications -- Conclusion -- Suggested reading -- References -- Index.

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