How to Choose the Right Methodology for Your Doctoral Dissertation

Introduction

Hi Dissertation Writer! If you have found your way to this article, you are probably feeling lost. Not only are you disoriented, but you are “lost” in the worst way: You are lost when it does not have to be this way! I’m Dr. Guy, author of “The Dissertation Warrior,” and founder of the world’s most comprehensive online dissertation writing training for doctoral students

Purpose of this Article

Doctoral candidates often struggle with three notable competing forces when they are selecting a topic and trying to get their initial proposal or chapters completed. These competing forces (among many) are:

1. Their own opinion on what they should study;
2. Their chair’s assessment of the suitability of the study they hope to pursue; and
3. The mechanics of how one would go about such a study in the first place.

This article focuses mainly on that last challenge: How does one select the “right way” of collecting data and analyzing it? This task is quite an important thing to figure out! After all, without this, there is no hope of getting your chair to approve your study. Further, this article will help you develop a sense of “why” you are collecting and analyzing the data in a particular fashion. This ability to justify your choices is also something you’ll need in your journey