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

by Linda Dale Bloomberg, Marie F. Volpe

Graduate students often struggle with turning qualitative research projects into a master's thesis or doctoral dissertation because the research itself is inherently messy. Completing Your Qualitative Dissertation: A Roadmap From Beginning to End, Second Edition helps address that challenge. Linda Dale Bloomberg and Marie Volpe have distilled decades of experience of dissertation advisement and successful doctoral defenses into this highly practical reference for graduate students. They focus on finding and articulating a clear research problem, purpose, and questions; laying out a research design that will lead to gathering the right kind of data and support the right kind of analysis; and writing up and defending the study. To help, they provide working tools, an integrative summary discussion at the end of each chapter, comprehensive checkists, and an annotated bibliography in each chapter.

Genres: Qualitative Research, Nonfiction, Writing, Reference

344 pages, Paperback

First published January 16, 2008

Reviews

[Karla]

It's an informative book I'd recommend for those going that route- after review, it was apparent that my study lent itself better to another route.

[Aregawi Tesfay]

Essential

[Athena Macmillan]

This has basically been my Bible of 2019. But also, I'm not sad to say goodbye.

[Ryan Schmidt]

Reference material.

[Jeannie]

Very practical. I have a feeling I’ll be consulting this one when I reach my dissertation phase.

[Karla Strand]

Essential.

[Laura]

The best book on writing a qualitative dissertation I've found. Saved my dissertation.