Research Methods Resources
The following books have been recommended by the faculty of the Department of Literature and Languages as appropriate for their doctoral students:
- Destination Dissertation: A Traveler’s Guide to a Done Dissertation by Sonja Foss and William Waters (Rowman and Littlefied, Publishers, Inc. 2007)
- Research Methods for English Studies, 2nd Edition, Edited by Gabriele Griffin (Edinburgh University Press Ltd, 2013)
- Research Methods for Cultural Studies, Edited by Michael Pickering (Edinburgh University Press Ltd, 2008)
- Currently under review by the Department of Literature and Languages is: Research Methods in Linguistics, Edited by Robert Podesva and Devyani Sharma (Cambridge University Press, 2014)
Frequently cited in dissertations in education is the research methods text by Creswell:
- Qualitative Inquiry & Research Design: Choosing Among Five Approaches, 3rd, by John Creswell (Sage Publications, Inc., 2013)
To be reviewed by appropriate departments:
- Art Practice as Research: Inquiry in Visual Arts, 2nd Edition, by Graeme Sullivan (Sage Publications, Inc., 2010)
- Research Methods in Theatre and Performance, Edited by Baz Kershaw and Helen Nicholson (Edinburgh University Press Ltd, 2011)
The classic nonparametric statistics text:
- Nonparametric Statistics by Sidney Siegel and N.John Castellan, Jr., 2nd Edition (McGraw Hill, 1988)
Currently used statistics text books:
- Using Multivariate Statistics, 6th Edition, by Barbara Tabachnick and Linda Fidell (Pearson, 2012)
- Discovering Statistics Using IBM SPSS Statistics, 4th Edition, by Andy Field (Sage, 2013)
For a comparison of EdD to PhD programs, the University of Vermont offers a comprehensive table comparing the two.