TY - BOOK ID - 135015035 TI - Dissertation Proposal Guidebook : How to Prepare a Research Proposal and Get It Accepted AU - Gardner, David. AU - Beatty, Grace. PY - 1980 SN - 0398081786 PB - Springfield : Charles C Thomas, DB - UniCat KW - Dissertations, Academic --Handbooks, manuals, etc. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:135015035 AB - By David C. Gardner, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, and Grace Joely Beatty, American Training and Research Associates, Inc., Methuen, Massachusetts. This no-nonsense manual of dissertation proposal writing has been tested and refined in workshops for doctoral and master's candidates. It begins with a step-by-step approach to the selection of a manageable topic. This section contains examples of good and bad research topics and a lucid explanation of directional, non-directional and null hypotheses. Eighteen examples of key proposal elements, taken from proposals and dissertations th ER -