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các bạn tải miễn phí ebook: Writing your doctoral dissertation - part 9
5 Identifying Your Dissertation Topic
and Your Research Questions
The opportunity to take a topic of importance to me and concentrate on it for
extended periods of time—persisting with an idea and seeing how it develops
over time—a pure luxury—and I loved it.
I enjoyed doing the review of the literature. I imagined myself a great detective,
tracking down leads one after another. Or it was a chain reaction: one article’s
bibliography would lead to another great source. The best was when I hit the
“mother lode,” research directly related to what I wanted to do.
B efore writing your dissertation, you need to know what you want to
research, what you want to learn. A dissertation is expected to “break new
ground” for a discipline, and in the process of breaking new ground, you, as
the researcher, become proficient at conducting research.
Although a common belief about research is that we do research to confirm
or prove our assumptions, this is inaccurate. Rather, research is a process of
searching repeatedly, re-searching for new insights and a more
comprehensive, cohesive, “elegant” theory. There are probably few, if any
“truths”—immutable, never-changing facts. Each research project intends to
advance our knowledge, getting closer to “truth.” All studies are limited by
time, if nothing else. Findings from research allow us to m
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5 Identifying Your Dissertation Topic
and Your Research Questions
The opportunity to take a topic of importance to me and concentrate on it for
extended periods of time—persisting with an idea and seeing how it develops
over time—a pure luxury—and I loved it.
I enjoyed doing the review of the literature. I imagined myself a great detective,
tracking down leads one after another. Or it was a chain reaction: one article’s
bibliography would lead to another great source. The best was when I hit the
“mother lode,” research directly related to what I wanted to do.
B efore writing your dissertation, you need to know what you want to
research, what you want to learn. A dissertation is expected to “break new
ground” for a discipline, and in the process of breaking new ground, you, as
the researcher, become proficient at conducting research.
Although a common belief about research is that we do research to confirm
or prove our assumptions, this is inaccurate. Rather, research is a process of
searching repeatedly, re-searching for new insights and a more
comprehensive, cohesive, “elegant” theory. There are probably few, if any
“truths”—immutable, never-changing facts. Each research project intends to
advance our knowledge, getting closer to “truth.” All studies are limited by
time, if nothing else. Findings from research allow us to m
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