Erik Borg & Stephen N. Davis 
The SAGE Handbook of Digital Dissertations and Theses [EPUB ebook] 
SAGE Publications

This handbook sets out the processes and products of ′digital′ research. It is a theoretical and practical guide on how to undertake and navigate advanced research in the arts, humanities and social sciences.

Topics covered include:

– how to make research more accessible

– the use of search engines and other sources to determine the scope of work

– research training for students

– what will theses, dissertations and research reports look like in ten years′ time?

– the storing and archiving of such research

– ethics and methodologies in the field

– intercultural issues

The editors focus on advances in arts and practice-based doctorates, and their application in other fields and disciplines. The contributions chart new territory for universities, research project directors, supervisors and research students regarding the nature and format of Masters and doctoral work, as well as research projects.

This handbook is an essential reference for researchers, supervisors and administrators on how to conduct and evaluate research projects in a digital and multimodal age.

Richard Andrews is Professor in English, Faculty of Children and Learning, Institute of Education.

Erik Borg is a Senior Lecturer at Coventry University′s Centre for Academic Writing.

Stephen Boyd Davis is Research Leader in the School of Design, Royal College of Art.

Myrrh Domingo is Visiting Assistant Professor in English Education and Literacy Education at New York University.

Jude England is Head of Social Sciences at the British Library.

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Introduction – Richard Andrews, Erik Borg, Stephen Boyd Davis, Myrrh Domingo and Jude England

PART ONE: INSTITUTIONAL PERSPECTIVES

The Thesis: Texts and Machines – Erik Borg and Stephen Boyd Davis

New Forms of Dissertation – Richard Andrews and Jude England

The Role of Doctoral and Graduate Schools – Richard P.J. Freeman and Andrew Tolmie

Digital Literacies for the Research Institution – Helen Beetham, Allison Littlejohn and Colin Milligan

PART TWO: STUDENT PERSPECTIVES

Media Systems, Multimodality and Post-Humanism – Lesley Gourlay

Reframing the Performing Arts – Zoe Beardshaw Andrews

Complexity Theory – June Elizabeth Parnell

Re-Imagining the Conditions of Possibility of a Ph D Thesis – Jude Fransman

Traditional Theses and Multimodal Communication – Dylan Yamada-Rice

PART THREE: ETHICAL AND INTERCULTURAL ISSUES

Ethics and Representation – Bronwyn T. Williams and Mary Brydon-Miller

Copyright Managment Approaches – Brian Fitzgerald and Damien O′Brien

Understanding Identity Representations in Multimodal Research – Pauline Hope Cheong

The Social Life of Digital Texts in Multimodal Research – Myrrh Domingo

PART FOUR: MULTIMODALITY, INCLUDING THE REPRESENTATION AND PRESENTATION OF THESES AND DISSERTATIONS

Researching in Conditions of Provisionality: Reflecting on the Ph D in the Digital and Multimodal Era – Gunther Kress

Practice-as-Research in Music Performance – Mine Dogantan-Dack

Translating Lydia Cabrera: A Case Study in Digital (Re)Presentation – Anna-Marjatta Milsom

Disciplinary ′Specificity′ and the Digital Submission – Susan Melrose

Digits and Figures: A Manual Drawing Practice and Its Modes of Reproduction – Juliet Mac Donald

PART FIVE: ARCHIVING, STORAGE AND ACCESSIBILITY IN THE DIGITAL AGE

The Research Catalogue: A Model for Dissertations and Theses – Michael Schwab

The Changing Role of Library and Information Services – Joanna Newman

Animating the Archive – Martin Rieser

Establishing the Cybertextual in Practice-Based Ph Ds – Lisa Stansbie

PART SIX: RESEARCH METHODS

A Modern Ph D: Doctoral Education in Australian Universities in Digital Times – Ilana Snyder and Denise Beale

How Changes in Representation Can Affect Meaning – Amy Alexandra Wilson

Researching Adoloscents′ Literacies Multimodally – Lalitha Vasudevan and Tiffany De Jaynes

Implication for Research Training and Examination for Design Ph Ds – Joyce S.R. Yee

Uncaged Boxed-up – Ralf Nuhn

Index

关于作者

I focus on research in the fields of language education, argumentation, writing development, multimodality, rhetoric and e-learning. With colleagues I designed the MA in English Education.