Writing Strategies for the Education Dissertation offers a unique take on doctoral writing. It uses composition and rhetoric strategies to identify key activities for generating thought to keep ...students writing. It de-mythologizes the view of writing as a mere skill and promotes the view of writing as thinking.
It uses writing to help students invent, think through, write, rethink, and rewrite as they develop and present their innovations. The book opens with this mindset and with the purposes of the task (adding to knowledge); it helps define a “researchable topic,” and provides advice on invention (“brainstorming”). It then addresses each of the key sections of the dissertation, from Problem Statement, through Literature Review and Methods, to Findings and Conclusions, while underscoring the iterative nature of this writing. For each chapter, the book provides advice on invention, argument, and arrangement (“organization”) – rhetorical elements that are seldom fully addressed in textbooks. Each chapter also looks at possible missteps, offers examples of student writing and revisions, and suggests alternatives, not rules. The text concludes with an inventive approach of its own, addressing style (clarity, economy, and coherence) as persuasion.
This book is suitable for all doctoral students of education and others looking for tips and advice on the best dissertation writing.
"Digital dissertations have been a part of academic research for years now, yet there are still many questions surrounding their processes. Are interactive dissertations significantly different from ...their paper-based counterparts? What are the effects of digital projects on doctoral education? How does one choose and defend a digital dissertation? This book explores the wider implications of digital scholarship across institutional, geographic, and disciplinary divides. The volume is arranged in two sections: the first, written by senior scholars, addresses conceptual concerns regarding the direction and assessment of digital dissertations in the broader context of doctoral education. The second section consists of case studies by PhD students whose research resulted in a natively digital dissertation that they have successfully defended. These early-career researchers have been selected to represent a range of disciplines and institutions. Despite the profound effect of incorporated digital tools on dissertations, the literature concerning them is limited. This volume aims to provide a fresh, up-to-date view on the digital dissertation, considering the newest technological advances. It is especially relevant in the European context where digital dissertations, mostly in arts-based research, are more popular. Shaping the Digital Dissertation aims to provide insights, precedents and best practices to graduate students, doctoral advisors, institutional agents, and dissertation committees. As digital dissertations have a potential impact on the state of research as a whole, this edited collection will be a useful resource for the wider academic community and anyone interested in the future of doctoral studies."
Introduction- Introduce the topic of the continuity of psychoses and its relevance in contemporary psychiatry.- Present authors as Henry EY, Jim van Os and Germán Berrios as key figures in the ...discussion on this topic, highlighting Ey, Dr. Jim van Os’s significant contributions to the understanding of the continuum of psychosis, Germán Berrios’s historical and cultural perspectives, and the importance of Bartolomé Llopis’s critical viewpoint. We also review the evolutionary approach about mental disorders as a keypoint in this discussion.ObjectivesAnalyzing and comparing the theses of Jim van Os, Ey, Germán Berrios, and Bartolomé Llopis’s critical perspective. about the continuum of the psychosis and the importance of this neverending question for its use in the clinical practice.MethodsI will present a detailed literature review and a textual analysis of their writings.Results- Provide a brief description of Jim van Os’s theses highlighting his key ideas:- Dimensional Approach: promotes a dimensional approach to understanding psychosis, viewing psychotic experiences as continuous variables rather than categorical entities. This challenges the traditional diagnostic system.- Psychotic-Like Experiences: His research focuses on “psychotic-like experiences” (PLEs) in non-clinical populations, including mild hallucinations or paranoid thoughts.- Transdiagnostic Perspective: His work contributes to a transdiagnostic perspective, suggesting flexibility in diagnostic boundaries in psychiatry.- Next, introduce Germán Berrios’s theses on the same topic, emphasizing his historical and cultural perspectives and recognition of individual variability.- Finally, introduce Bartolomé Llopis’s critical perspective:- Llopis criticizes simplistic models of psychosis, arguing that they fail to capture the complexity of individual experiences.- He advocates for comprehensive assessments that consider not only symptomatology but also the unique contexts and histories of individuals.- While Ramón y Cajal is best known for his contributions to neuroscience and neuroanatomy, he did not directly apply Darwinian principles to his work in those fields. However He believed that an understanding of the evolutionary history of the brain and nervous system could provide valuable insights into their structure and function.Conclusions- Highlight the potential for a more comprehensive and holistic approach to understanding and addressing psychotic experiences within an evolutionary context.- The relationship between the continuum of psychosis and evolutionism is a complex and multifaceted topic. It involves exploring how the concept of the continuum of psychosis, which suggests that psychotic experiences exist on a spectrum in the general population, may relate to evolutionary theories and perspectives on mental health. We will explain some key points to consider about this and the main psychiatrists whicha dealt with this question.Disclosure of InterestNone Declared
Systematic reviews (SRs) are an important source of information about healthcare interventions. A key component of a well-conducted SR is a comprehensive literature search. There is limited evidence ...on the contribution of non-English reports, unpublished studies, and dissertations and their impact on results of meta-analyses.
Our sample included SRs from three Cochrane Review Groups: Acute Respiratory Infections (ARI), Infectious Diseases (ID), Developmental Psychosocial and Learning Problems (DPLP) (n = 129). Outcomes included: 1) proportion of reviews that searched for and included each study type; 2) proportion of relevant studies represented by each study type; and 3) impact on results and conclusions of the primary meta-analysis for each study type.
Most SRs searched for non-English studies; however, these were included in only 12% of reviews and represented less than 5% of included studies. There was a change in results in only four reviews (total sample = 129); in two cases the change did not have an impact on the statistical or clinical significance of results. Most SRs searched for unpublished studies but the majority did not include these (only 6%) and they represented 2% of included studies. In most cases the impact of including unpublished studies was small; a substantial impact was observed in one case that relied solely on unpublished data. Few reviews in ARI (9%) and ID (3%) searched for dissertations compared to 65% in DPLP. Overall, dissertations were included in only nine SRs and represented less than 2% of included studies. In the majority of cases the change in results was negligible or small; in the case where a large change was noted, the estimate was more conservative without dissertations.
The majority of SRs searched for non-English and unpublished studies; however, these represented a small proportion of included studies and rarely impacted the results and conclusions of the review. Inclusion of these study types may have an impact in situations where there are few relevant studies, or where there are questionable vested interests in the published literature. We found substantial variation in whether SRs searched for dissertations; in most reviews that included dissertations, these had little impact on results.
This book is for graduate students--and others--who want to become more productive writers. It's especially written for those who want to: •increase their motivation, focus, and persistence to move a ...project to completion •overcome procrastination and perfectionistic tendencies •reduce (or write in spite of) their anxiety and fear of writing •manage their time, work, energy (and advisor) for greater productivityWhile Jan Allen recognizes that writing is not an innate talent for most of us, she demonstrates that it is a process based on skills which we can identify, learn, practice and refine. She focuses both on the process and habits of writing as well as on helping you uncover what kind of writeryou are, and reflect on your challenges and successes. With a light touch and an engaging sense of humor, she proposes strategies to overcome procrastination and distractions, and build a writing practice to enable you to become a more productive and prolific writer.
Jaśkowski's discussive (discursive) logic D2 is historically one of the first para-consistent logics, i.e., logics that 'tolerate' contradictions. Following Jaśkowski's idea to define his discussive ...logic by means of the modal logic S5 via special translation functions between discussive and modal languages and supporting at the same time the tradition of paracomplete logics being the counterpart of paraconsistent ones, we present a paracomplete discussive logic Dp2.