Dissertation Students: Knowing this Difference is Key
The word paradigm is associated with a methodology when conducting research and simply means… These paradigms include perceptions, assumptions, and practices, which forms the reality of a study.
Disaster Lurks when You Forget these Things
Resources: A researcher lacking in resources is a recipe for failure at best. Tuition is nonrefundable whether you complete the study or not, so you must set yourself up to complete the study. Many students underestimate the costs associated with doing a study.
Developing your Academic Identity
The qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods. Each method has an underpinning philosophy and choosing a method of inquiry should be personally meaningful to you as an academic researcher.
Exciting not Defeating, Dissertation Success
Findings from your study will add or not add to all possible solutions of a problem, and therefore, doctoral students should not try solving the total problem, you cannot.
Exciting Use of Theory
Scientific theory and why we need it. Social science research is based on a term we call a theory, which evolved from the Greek word, theoria, simply meaning “a look at”. Many students struggle with the role of a theory in research and the benefits of theories in general. The truth is that we all…