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Download full textCouncil of Graduate Schools in the U.S., Washington, DC. – 1991
Findings and recommendations presented in this study of the role and nature of doctoral disserations are based on deliberations of a task force of graduate school deans and 48 reports submitted by selected universities. Findings are offered in the areas of: distinguishing characteristics of dissertation research and dissertations; originality,…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Doctoral Dissertations, Doctoral Programs, Higher Education
Nel, Johanna – 1983
Overviews of the process of historical research and the writing of a successful historical essay or dissertation are presented. Historical research is defined as the systematic process of collecting and objectively evaluating data related to past occurrences to arrive at conclusions about the causes, effects, or trends of past events that may be…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Doctoral Dissertations, Essays, Expository Writing
