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

by Linda Dale Bloomberg, Marie F. Volpe

Completing Your Qualitative Dissertation offers comprehensive step-by-step guidance and practical tools for navigating the personal and professional challenges that can arise during the qualitative dissertation journey. Authors Linda Dale Bloomberg and Maria Volpe skillfully blend the conceptual, theoretical, and practical, empowering readers to successfully master both the content and the process of their qualitative dissertations.  

The Fourth Edition has been thoroughly updated to respond to developments in the field, allowing the book to have wider application for dissertation work within the evolving world of qualitative inquiry. Included in this edition is a new chapter titled "Achieving Alignment Throughout Your Dissertation," a greater focus on how all qualitative traditions can encompass activist research and social justice inquiry, and enhanced coverage on the role of the researcher, emphasizing the importance of reflexivity and approaching research critically.

Genres: Qualitative Research, Nonfiction, Writing, Reference

456 pages, Paperback

First published January 16, 2008

Reviews

[Karla · Rating 4 out of 5]

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 · Rating 5 out of 5]

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

[Ryan Schmidt]

Reference material.

[Jeannie · Rating 4 out of 5]

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

[Karla Strand · Rating 4 out of 5]

Essential.

[Laura · Rating 5 out of 5]

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