Writing Strategies for the Education Dissertation (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780367627058)

Writing Strategies for the Education Dissertation offers a unique take on doctoral writing. It uses composition and rhetoric strategies to identify key activities for generating thought to keep students writing. It de-mythologizes the view of writing as a mere skill and promotes the view of writing as thinking.

It uses writing to help students invent, think through, write, rethink, and rewrite as they develop and present their innovations. The book opens with this mindset and with the purposes of the task (adding to knowledge); it helps define a "researchable topic," and provides advice on invention ("brainstorming"). It then addresses each of the key sections of the dissertation, from Problem Statement, through Literature Review and Methods, to Findings and Conclusions, while underscoring the iterative nature of this writing. For each chapter, the book provides advice on invention, argument, and arrangement ("organization") - rhetorical elements that are seldom fully addressed in textbooks. Each chapter also looks at possible missteps, offers examples of student writing and revisions, and suggests alternatives, not rules. The text concludes with an inventive approach of its own, addressing style (clarity, economy, and coherence) as persuasion.

This book is suitable for all doctoral students of education and others looking for tips and advice on the best dissertation writing.

Author: Diane Bennett Durkin
ISBN-10: 0367627051
ISBN-13: 9780367627058
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 12/30/2020
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.60h x 6.80w x 0.70d