The authors of this book workbook precis or primer are senior
professors, dissertation advisors, and seasoned administrators for
a research university in the Deep South. Our title INQUIRY reflects
the books aim to help readers with the principles of research scope
concerning investigative (examination); nuances (meaning);
questions (evoke); in (throughout); research (scientific) yield
(return). The book was generated from many discussions over the
years about the quality of dissertations and the organizational
challenges experienced by doctoral students before, during and
after the dissertation prospectus or proposal stage. The content of
this book was driven, motivated, and derived from formative
feedback given by some of our doctoral students who completed a
series of pre-dissertation proposal workshops. We have attempted to
address all of their typical inquiries, concerns, challenges and
issues in the pre and post dissertation proposal process. We have
attempted in our short book to capture these challenges and address
them in a very succinct precis by identifying ten basic digits for
planning the dissertation proposal process and beyond for the
lifelong researcher. However we also spend a great of time making
suggestions in the preplanning process prior to the ten step
process. We recommend that doctoral students seek out separate
readings for some of the fundamental components of traditional
qualitative research relative to areas such as varying research
designs, biography, case study, ethnography, grounded theory,
phenomenology, and other elements of conventional quantitative
research like instrumentation, sampling, variables, testing, and
other statistics. We call our digits finger tip because the writing
and word processing of the dissertation are the manifestation of
work from the finger tips of the human hand based on the thinking
constructs generated from the mind. Therefore, research derived
from the process of dissertation thinking, engaging and writing is
the result of cognitive and relational symmetry between the human
mind and the human hand. An exercise we have used with our students
involves each student putting on latex gloves and writing the
chapter initials and numbered digits at the bottom of each finger.
This allows the student to look at all finger digits that represent
the all sections of the dissertation proposal, while typing about
the dissertation on a computer key board. Given this profound
psychological, physiological and metaphorical synergy, mind-to-hand
coordination, we have chosen each finger of the hand to symbolize
each step in our precis. The left and right hands each have five
digits, thumb, index, middle, ring, and little. The scientific
designation for each, the thumb, index, middle, ring and little
fingers are the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th. The final dissertation
has five chapters and five finger digits from the hand can
intersect the psychological, physiological and metaphorical
dimensions. After a comprehensive introduction, our book chapters
are organised in a way to engage students of the dissertation
process from looking at their hands beginning with the left thumb
as the first digit to symbolize the stage of thought or idea
provocation; the second left index digit as the literature review;
the third left middle digit as the theoretical framework; the
fourth left ring digit as the research questions; and the fifth
left little digit as the hypothesis stage (or step). The right hand
fingers represent the remaining key five chapters. The right thumb
symbolizing research design ; the right index for instrumentation ;
the right middle for data collection/coding ; the right middle for
data analysis; and the right little for data findings.
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