LibGuides: CMP-9701E v5: Milestone 3 Resources

Milestone 3 Resources

Completing Your Qualitative Dissertation: A Road Map From Beginning to End
Bloomberg, L. D. (2023). Completing your qualitative dissertation: A road map from beginning to end. SAGE.
This text offers comprehensive guidance and practical tools for navigating each step in the qualitative dissertation process, including the planning, research, and writing phases. Blending the conceptual, theoretical, and practical, the book becomes a dissertation in action—an explanation and illustration of both content and process.

Access your textbook from the Getting Started module in your course

Read Chapter 6 (“Introduction to Your Study”). This chapter provides an explanation of how to develop a research problem within the context of a topic of interest, and how to narrow and refine a research problem statement.
Applied Doctoral Center Section 1: Avoiding Common Mistakes
Center for Teaching and Learning (2022). Applied doctoral center section 1: Avoiding common mistakes .
This resource, located in the Applied Doctoral Center, will help you to avoid common mistakes in developing your research questions.
Applied Doctoral Center Section 1: Writing An Effective Purpose Statement
Applied Doctoral Center. (2021). Section 1: Writing an effective purpose statement
This resource, located in the Applied Doctoral Center, supports the development of the purpose statement for your future dissertation-in-practice.
Purpose Statement
Purpose Statement Sessions
Wednesdays at 3 pm PST and Saturdays at 2 pm PST
Research Feasibility Checklist
Byrne, D. (2023). Developing a researchable question. Project Planner. SAGE Research Methods
Alignment Worksheet
National University Library. (2023, Apr 24). Alignment worksheet.Dissertation Center.
Alignment
National University Library. (2023, Apr 24). Alignment of problem, purpose, and questions.Dissertation Center.