Dissertation Writing Bibliography

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Howard S. Becker with a chapter by Pamela Richards. Writing for Social Scientists: How to Start and Finish your Thesis, Book, or Article (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1986).

Joan Bolker, Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day: A Guide to Starting, Revising, and Finishing Your Doctoral Thesis (New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1998).

Arlene Fink, Conducting Research Literature Reviews: From Paper to the Internet (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1998).

Jacqueline Fitzpatrick, Jan Secrist, and Debra J. Wright. Secrets for a Successful Dissertation (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1998).

Jose L. Galvan, Writing Literature Reviews: A Guide for Students of the Social and Behavioral Sciences (Los Angeles, CA: Pyrczak Publishing, 2000).

Barbara E. Lovitts, Making the Implicit Explicit: Creating Performance Expectations for the Dissertation (Stylus Publishing, 2007).

James E. Mauch and Jack W. Birch, Guide to the Successful Thesis and Dissertation: Conception to Publication (New York: Marcel Dekker, Inc., 1983).

Marilyn F. Moriarty, Writing Science Through Critical Thinking (Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett, 1997).

Mildred L. Patten, Proposing Empirical Research: A Guite to the Fundamentals (Los Angeles, CA: Pyrczak Publishing, 2000).

Fred Pyrczak and Randall E. Bruce, Writing Empirical Research Reports: A Basic Guide for Students of the Social and Behavioral Sciences (Los Angeles, CA: Pyrczak Publishing, 2000).

Fred Pyrczak, Completing Your Thesis of Dissertation: Professors Share Their Techniques and Strategies (Los Angeles, CA: Pyrczak Publishing, 2000).

David Sternberg, How to Complete and Survive Your Doctoral Dissertation (New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 1981).

Kate L. Turabian, John Grossman, Alice Bennett, A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations (Chicago: Univ of Chicago Press, 1996).

Eviatar Zerubavel, The Clockwork Muse: A Practical Guide to Writing Theses, Dissertations, and Books (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999).