Dissertations and Theses From Start to Finish**, now updated and
revised to reflect changes to the APA's Publication Manual, Seventh
Edition!**
For over twenty-five years, Cone and Foster's useful book has guided
student writers through the practical, logistical, and emotional
struggles that come with writing dissertations and theses. It offers
guidance to students through all the essential steps, including:
- Defining topics;
- Selecting faculty advisors;
- Scheduling time to work on the project, and;
- Conducting, analyzing, writing, presenting, and publishing research.
This third edition of this bestselling work follows new guidelines from
APA's Publication Manual, Seventh Edition, and includes questions to
help steer research, checklists, diagrams, and sample research papers.
It also reflects the most recent advances in online research and
includes fully updated online resources.
Each chapter begins with an Advance Organizer that offers an at-a-glance
summary of chapter content and applicability for different types of
readers. Chapters also include significantly expanded To Do and
Supplemental Resource lists, as well as helpful suggestions for
dealing with common "traps" that recur throughout the writing process.
The authors also consider the variety of roles faculty advisors play,
and of variations in the thesis and dissertation process and
requirements across institutions of higher learning.
