Writing and Publishing Your Thesis, Dissertation, and Research: A Guide for Students in the Helping Professions

by Mary J. Heppner and P. Paul Heppner

Book Overview

This book provides masters and doctoral students with an in-depth and comprehensive guide to the process of writing a thesis or dissertation. It breaks down this often foreboding and overwhelming goal... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0534559743
• ISBN13: 9780534559748
• Release Date: July 2003
• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Length: 375 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Dissertation guide

This is, in my opinion, the benchmark book for theses and dissertations. It is comprehensive and concise in laying out how to plan, prepare, and publish capstone documents in higher education.

Dissertation prep

A surprisingly enjoyable and easy read for anyone starting a thesis or dissertation! Given the subject, it is really fun.

Great Book for those just starting to write!

This book offers practical stratagies to getting started and staying focused. I would definetly resommend it for beginners!

Outstanding resource for all students

This book is an oustanding resource for graduate students working on their dissertations or theses as well as for faculty who supervise research. My students have told me repeatedly that this book has greatly helped them in the research process. It is well-written, concepts are clearly explained, and the examples are invaluable. As a Professor, I have recommended this book to almost every doctoral student I meet and have actually given it as a gift to all my students in their first year of graduate school. I most highly recommend it to faculty and students alike. I think it would be especially useful and relevant for a graduate research course.

Must-have for Psych doctoral students

My dissertation chair recommended this book because it was written by authors highly involved in APA and gives examples relevant to psych students, who inevitably have to figure out how to deal with all those articles they read and review. I found the book comprehensive and extremely helpful. It breaks down each section of the dissertation and walks you through it, then gives a "quiz" at the end of each chapter that will be very helpful when revising that first draft. I would also recommend "Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day" as a moral support companion text. It isn't specifically for psych, but it's great if you're scared to write or angry about having to write. Best of luck to my fellow ABD's!