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Books

  • Boice, Robert. (2000) Advice for New Faculty Members: Nihil Nimus. Allyn & Bacon Publishers. New York, NY.
  • Darley, J. M., Zanna, M. P., Roediger III, H. L. (2003) The Compleat Academic: A Career Guide. American Psychological Association Press. Washington, D.C.
  • Peters, R. L. (1997) Getting What You Came For: A Smart Student's Guide to Earning a Master's or a Ph.D. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux Publishers. New York, NY.
  • Ramón y Cajal, S. (2000) Advice for a Young Investigator, Second Edition. MIT Press. Cambridge, MA.
  • Rudestam, K. E., Newton, R. R. (2001) How to Survive Your Dissertation: A Comprehensive Guide to Content and Process. SAGE Publications. Thousand Oaks, CA.

Articles

Web Sites

Survey Results

  • In order to obtain a spreadsheet containing detailed information from the survey of SI PhD students conducted in April/May 2009, please e-mail the DEC (si-dec@umich.edu). This spreadsheet includes the following fields:
    • First Name
    • Last Name
    • Email Address
    • Phone Number
    • Year began SI PhD program
    • Goal Graduation Date
    • Certificate Programs you are pursuing while at SI (please spell out)
    • Undergraduate Major
    • Undergraduate Institution
    • Other Graduate Degrees (degree/field/institution)
    • If you were SI Master's student, #years/specialization(s)
    • Your Website
    • If you're interested in collaborating with other students, please describe
    • Highly recommended SI courses
    • Highly recommended cognate courses
    • Highly recommended research method courses
    • Your Hobbies
    • Where did you grow up?
    • Favorite Quote
    • Advisor #1
    • Advisor #2
    • Advisor #3
    • Keyword #1
    • Keyword #2
    • Keyword #3
    • Keyword #4
    • Keyword #5
    • Research Project #1
    • Research Project #2
    • Research Project #3
    • Research Project #4
    • Research Project #5
    • Group #1
    • Group #2
    • Group #3
    • Group #4
    • Group #5
    • Committee Member #1
    • Committee Member #2
    • Committee Member #3
    • Committee Member #4
    • Committee Member #5
    • Precandidacy Project
    • Prelim Topic
    • Dissertation Topic
    • Description of Dissertation Research
    • Research Method #1
    • Research Method #2
    • Research Method #3
    • Research Method #4
    • Research Method #5
    • Research Method #6
    • Additional Method #1
    • Additional Method #2
    • Additional Method #3
    • Additional Method #4
    • Additional Method #5
    • Additional Method #6

For Getting Funding

Books

Articles

Web Sites

For Writing

Copyright

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Books

  • Becker, H. S. (1986) Writing for Social Scientists: How to Start and Finish your Thesis, Book, or Article. University of Chicago Press. Chicago, IL.
  • Bolker, J. (1998) Writing your Dissertation in 15 Minutes a Day: A Guide to Starting, Revising, and Finishing your Doctoral Thesis. Owl Books. New York, NY.
  • McCloskey?, D. (1999) Economical Writing. Waveland Press, Inc. Long Grove, IL.
  • Wolcott, H. F. (1990) Writing Up Qualitative Research. SAGE Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA.

Articles

  • Short reflections on dissertation writing by five prize-winners, as published in PS, the professional journal of the American Political Science Association.

Web Sites

  • Flourish, a newsletter for academic writers with general resources. This particular page points to a classic piece by sociologist Art Stinchcombe "On Getting Hung Up".
  • Dissertation Resources, from the Knowledge Navigation Center at Hatcher Graduate Library

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Web Sites

For Experimental Design

Books

  • Booth, W. C., Colomb, G. G., Williams, J. M. (2003) The Craft of Research, Second Edition. University of Chicago Press. Chicago, IL.
  • Box, G. E. P. (1978) Statistics for Experimenters: An Introduction to Design, Data Analysis, and Model Building. John Wiley & Sons. New York, NY.
  • Cook, T. D., Campbell, D. T. (1979) Quasi-Experimentation: Design and Analysis Issues for Field Settings. Houghton Mifflin. Boston, MA.
  • Roy, R. K. (2001) Design of Experiments Using the Taguchi Approach: 16 Steps to Product and Process Improvement. Wiley Interscience. New York, NY.
  • Wu, C. F. J., Hamada, M. (2000) Experiments: Planning, Analysis, and Parameter Design Optimization. John Wiley & Sons. New York, NY.

Articles

Web Sites

For Quantitative Research and Statistics

Books

  • Hair, J. F., Anderson, R. E., Tatham, R. L., Black, W. C. (1998) Multivariate Data Analysis, Fifth Edition. Prentice Hall. Upper Saddle River, NJ.
  • Huck, S. (2000) Reading Statistics and Research, Third Edition. Addison Wesley Longman. New York, NY.
  • Kline, P. (1994) An Easy Guide to Factor Analysis. Routledge. New York, NY.
  • Tabachnik, B. G., Fidell, L. S. (1989) Using Multivariate Statistics, Second Edition. Harper Collins. New York, NY.

Articles

Web Sites

For Qualitative Research

Books

  • Creswell, J. W. (1998) Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design: Choosing Among Five Traditions. SAGE Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA.
  • Denzin, N. K., Lincoln, Y. S., eds. (2000) Handbook of Qualitative Research, Second Edition. SAGE Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA.
  • Emerson, R. M., Fretz, R. I., Shaw, L. L. (1995) Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes. The University of Chicago Press. Chicago, IL.
  • Feldman, Martha S., Jeannine Bell, Michele Tracy Berger (2003) Gaining access :a practical and theoretical guide for qualitative researchers. Altamira Press, Walnut Creek, CA.
  • Glaser, B. G., Strauss, A. L. (1999) The Discovery of Grounded Theory: Strategies for Qualitative Research. Aldine de Gruyter. New York, NY.
  • Miles, M. B., Huberman, A. M. (1994) Qualitative Data Analysis: An Expanded Sourcebook, Second Edition. SAGE Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA.
  • Strauss, A., Corbin, J. (1998) Basics of Qualitative Research: Techniques and Procedueres for Developing Grounded Theory, Second Edition. SAGE Publications. Thousand Oaks, CA.
  • Weiss, R. S. (1994) Learning from Strangers: The Art and Method of Qualitative Interview Studies. Free Press. New York, NY.

Articles

Web Sites

For Organization Theory

Web Sites

  • http://ot.cavarretta.com/ A website with a large annotated bibliography and other concept mapping tools related to the literature of organizational behavior. Compiled in 02005 by Fabrice Cavarretta and other students at INSEAD preparing for doctoral exams in this field. -- (MC) - 30 Jan 2006
  • http://amadeus.management.mcgill.ca/%7Emark.mortensen/orgweb/home.shtml Mark Mortensen's Org Theory web site - lots of citations with short summaries from doctoral students at Stanford (who were prepping for their quals) -- (MB) - 30 Jan 2006

Books

For Theory Building

Books

  • Kuhn, T. S. (1996) The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Third Edition. University of Chicago Press. Chicago, IL.
  • Rule, J. B. (1997) Theory and Progress in Social Science. Cambridge University Press. New York, NY.
  • Shoemaker, P. J., Tankard Jr., J. W., Lasorsa, D. L. (2004) How to Build Social Science Theories. SAGE Publications. Thousand Oaks, CA.

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