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K. Weber, Roberta, and Ethan J Allen. "Doctoral Dissertation Topics in Education: Do They Align with Critical Issues?" International Journal of Doctoral Studies 11 (2016): 403–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.28945/3609.

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American society faces complex educational issues which impact many facets of its national interests. Institutions of higher education are granting doctoral degrees to educational leaders, but it is not known to what extent their dissertation topics are aligned with both longstanding and critical issues in education. Using a theoretical framework synthesizing Paul and Elder’s critical thinking model and Kuhlthau’s information seeking process, this study examines a set of education doctoral dissertation topical selections and categorizes them by general themes in relationship to many of the recognized educational issues in the United States. Investigators categorized dissertations from four departments within the College of Education of their home institution. The dataset, retrieved from ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global, consisted of 231 documents published between 2005 and 2014. Through an inter-rater process examining dissertation titles, abstracts, and keywords, the dissertations were assigned critical issue themes culled from nine editions of a college text, and then categorized under a broader topical scheme situated within a well-used educational research website. Findings indicated that most dissertations concentrated in studies that researched problems and issues within schools. Further, some of the issues considered longstanding were not studied by dissertation authors within the sample. For example, privatization of schools and classroom discipline and justice were not selected for study. Findings also suggest new directions for those responsible for dissertation supervision and topic selection. The study adds to the literature on dissertation topic selection that addresses existing educational issues.

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Collie, W. Aaron, and Michael Witt. "A Practice and Value Proposal for Doctoral Dissertation Data Curation." International Journal of Digital Curation 6, no. 2 (July 25, 2011): 165–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.2218/ijdc.v6i2.194.

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The preparation and publication of dissertations can be viewed as a subsystem of scholarly communication, and the treatment of data that support doctoral research can be mapped in a very controlled manner to the data curation lifecycle. Dissertation datasets represent “low-hanging fruit” for universities who are developing institutional data collections. The current workflow for processing electronic theses and dissertations (ETD) at a typical American university is presented, and a new practice is proposed that includes datasets in the process of formulating, awarding, and disseminating dissertations in a way that enables them to be linked and curated together. The value proposition and new roles for the university and its student-authors, faculty, graduate programs and librarians are explored.

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Craig, Lee A. "Comments on Brinkley, Costa, and Seltzer: The Old, the Poor, and the Sick in American Economic History." Journal of Economic History 55, no. 2 (June 1995): 386–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022050700041176.

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Given the topics addressed by the three North American dissertations–old-age and disability pensions by Dora Costa, minimum wages by Andrew Seltzer, and hookworm disease by Garland Brinkley–I have subtitled my comments: “The Old, the Poor, and the Sick in American Economic History.” We observe that these dissertations address the effects of policies aimed at such seemingly inescapable human afflictions as aging, disability, poverty, and disease. Despite this observation, these are not tales of gloom. After all, as the authors themselves inform us, the old and disabled get pensions, the poor get minimum wages, and the sick get healed. So, each dissertation contains something to reassure the Dr. Pangloss–or the Dr. Stigler–in all of us. Here, however, the similarities between them end, with one notable exception–and that is the uniformly high quality of the scholarship they display.

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Raphael, Marc Lee. "Recent Dissertations in American Jewish Studies." American Jewish History 87, no. 4 (1999): 375–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ajh.1999.0040.

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Ehrhard Bahr and Walter K. Stewart. "North American Goethe Dissertations: 1988 Supplement." Goethe Yearbook 5, no. 1 (1990): 293–303. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/gyr.2011.0291.

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Corgan, James. "Early Medical Dissertation Research on Tennessee Geology." Earth Sciences History 4, no. 1 (January 1, 1985): 10–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.17704/eshi.4.1.a565l70401711475.

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Unpublished doctoral dissertation that predate American Ph.D. programs are an underutilized source of information on the geology of Tennessee, and on other geological topics. The nature of early doctoral research is briefly described and four pioneer dissertations, submitted in M.D. programs, are reviewed. The first dates from 1822 and the last from 1840. Each has continuing academic value, but must be viewed within the context of nineteenth century culture.

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Ehrhard Bahr and Walter K. Stewart. "North American Goethe Dissertations: 1989-99 Supplement." Goethe Yearbook 10, no. 1 (2001): 263–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/gyr.2011.0065.

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Truong, V. Dao, Tony Garry, and C. Michael Hall. "Social Marketing as the Subject of Doctoral Dissertations." Social Marketing Quarterly 20, no. 4 (August 9, 2014): 199–218. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1524500414546230.

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This article examines the evolution of social marketing as the subject of doctoral dissertations. Search strategies were used and online databases mined to identify 93 social marketing-focused doctoral theses completed between 1971 and 2013. Dissertation titles and abstracts were analyzed to determine growth trends, institutional output, disciplinary context, topical coverage, theory and model use, and differences between countries. Results indicate that the growth in the number of doctoral theses on social marketing was neither stable nor continuous over the examined period but that a rapid increase has been seen in recent years. More than 80% of the identified doctoral dissertations were undertaken in American and British educational institutions. The largest contributions came from the fields of health sciences and education, followed by business administration, marketing, communications, and psychology. Public health was predominantly the research topic. Theories and models were not always reported, with Theory of Planned Behaviour, Diffusion of Innovations Theory, and Health Belief Model being utilized most often. This study also suggests that many dissertations were focused on program development while paying relatively limited attention to theoretical advancement. This study contributes to the debate on the academic legitimacy of social marketing and helps shape directions for further knowledge creation in the field.

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Lauren Poyer and Kirsten Wolf. "North American Doctoral Dissertations on Old Norse-Icelandic." Scandinavian Studies 89, no. 1 (2017): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/scanstud.89.1.0001.

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Cohen, Lizabeth, and Herrick Chapman. "Recent dissertations in American and European labor history." Labor History 26, no. 4 (September 1985): 569–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00236568508584817.

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Cohen, Lizabeth, and Herrick Chapman. "Recent dissertations in American and European labor history." Labor History 27, no. 4 (September 1986): 545–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00236568608584856.

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Doyle, Barry M. "Research in urban history: a review of recent theses." Urban History 28, no. 2 (August 2001): 292–302. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0963926801002097.

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The object of this survey is to provide a broad overview of the types of research being undertaken in the field of urban history by doctoral students in Great Britain and North America. The survey employs a wide interpretation of ‘urban history’ which includes both the history of, and history in, urban areas. Providing brief summaries of a selection of abstracts published in the Aslib Index to Theses (covering Britain and Ireland) and Dissertations Abstracts International (for North America) of theses completed in 1999 and 2000, it attempts to highlight the novel directions in which current research is being taken. As noted last year, access to thesis abstracts has been greatly improved by the development of on-line services, including the electronic version of Index to Theses available at http://www.theses.com and Dissertations Abstracts International which can be accessed through Proquest at http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations. The thirty-four dissertations, drawn fairly evenly from candidates in British and North American institutions, cover a broad range of topics, with the time-span ranging from the early medieval world to the post-Second World War era, though it is worth noting the absence of studies addressing ancient history in this survey. As has been the trend in recent years, the bulk of the dissertations on both sides of the Atlantic focus on the late eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century, with particular concentrations around the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, though there is an enduring interest in the early modern period in England.

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Mody, Bella, Stephanie Alexander, Daniel Stencel, and Alex M. Ingersoll. "The Other in North American doctoral dissertations: early findings." Global Media and Communication 3, no. 3 (December 2007): 313–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/17427665070030030305.

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Zakharchuk, T., and A. Gruzova. "Dissertation defense board of St. Petersburg State Institute of Culture: 1938−2018." Scientific and Technical Libraries, no. 6 (June 3, 2019): 106–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.33186/1027-3689-2019-6-106-114.

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The history of the first in the country dissertation defense board, established at the N. K. Krupskaya Communist Institute of Political Education (today – St.Petersburg State Institute of Culture) is examined. The Board was established to review the theses in librarianship and bibliography. The analysis is based on the bibliography of dissertations defended during 80 years: the bibliography comprises 592 works. The main historical stages of the board are characterized; data on the number of doctor and candidate defenses during various periods is given. Several doctorate theses that made serious impact in the library and information sector are characterized; the geography of degree applicants (USSR republics, Asian, African, Latin American states) is analyzed; the subject scope of their investigations is discussed. The main research vectors and the most efficient supervisors are named. The author reveals the links between the defended dissertations and the Institute’s area of studies and scholar schools in the library and information sciences. The reasons for decreasing number of theses and changing subject scope are discussed.

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Cress, Donald A. "Canadian and American Dissertations on Descartes and Cartesianism 1865-1984." Philosophy Research Archives 13, no. 9999 (1987): 1–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/pra1987/198813supplement35.

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Bloom, Arthur W. "The Jefferson Company, 1830–1845." Theatre Survey 27, no. 1-2 (November 1986): 89–153. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0040557400008814.

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In a seminal article entitled “The Development of Theatre on the American Frontier, 1750–1890,” published in the May, 1978, issue of Theatre Survey, Douglas McDermott began synthesizing information about the nineteenth-century American theatre available in books, journals, theses, dissertations, and unpublished primary sources. His thesis of a three-phase development of American frontier theatre—consisting of small and strolling troupes, then standard repertory companies in small towns, and finally resident urban companies—must now be tested and modified by detailed examinations of particular stars, families, and companies touring in provincial America. This study of the Jefferson company corrects, supports, and expands McDermott's theory with evidence about one group of American actors who trouped, in various combinations, through the East, Mid-West, and South from 1830 to 1845.

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Meyer-Arendt, Klaus J., and Cynthia Justice. "Tourism as the Subject of North American Doctoral Dissertations, 1987–2000." Annals of Tourism Research 29, no. 4 (October 2002): 1171–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0160-7383(02)00038-5.

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Hunsucker, R. Laval. "Library and Information Science Doctoral Research Appears to be Showing Less and Less Interest in Library Topics, and Concern among Practitioners May be Justified." Evidence Based Library and Information Practice 7, no. 3 (September 13, 2012): 86. http://dx.doi.org/10.18438/b8n02d.

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Objective – To determine whether library and information science (LIS) doctoral research at North American institutions has, over the last eighty or so years, displayed a clear trend toward addressing topics other than those associated with librarianship and traditional library functions; and whether one can discern, in this regard, any significant differences among those institutions. Design – Conceptual content analysis of dissertation titles and abstracts. Setting – North American universities with American Library Association accredited LIS programs in the period 1930 through 2009. Subjects – The titles and, to the extent available, the abstracts of 3,230 LIS doctoral dissertations completed at these institutions during this period. Methods – Having opted for a directed, single-category type content analysis, the researchers began by pre-establishing a group of terms which they assumed could “represent the core curriculum of the master’s in library science”: terms which they surmised would therefore be able to function, where they appeared in “the records of doctoral output”, as good indicators that that output itself can rightly be judged to have had “an explicit focus on libraries/librarianship” (pp. 36, 44). The terms selected were: “librar*”, “catalog*”, “circulat*”, “collection develop*”, “collection manag*”, “school media”, and “reference” (where “*” indicates truncation, and that any term beginning with the respective letter string was acceptable). The researchers then simply tallied for each of the 3,230 dissertations under investigation how many times one or more of the pre-chosen terms occurred in its title and in its abstract, not recording which term or terms that occurred. (They do not make entirely clear to what extent data collection was computerized.) They subsequently analyzed the data longitudinally and by institution, with only one, nominal and dichotomous, variable for the title as well as for the abstract: whether or not any of the pre-chosen terms occurred at least once. Multiple occurrences, whether of the same term or of varying terms, played no role. Their analysis for the entire period of 1930 through 2009 was based on title data only, and did not take doctorate-granting institution into account. The separate analysis (N=2,305) for the period 1980 through 2009 excluded the thirty cases in which one or more of the terms occurred in the title but none of them occurred in the abstract. Main Results – One occurrence of any of the specified terms in the title was, for the overall period of 1930-2009, enough for any given dissertation to be qualified as having an explicit focus on libraries/librarianship. The percentage of such dissertations remained fairly stable from the 1930s through the 1980s, at between 56% and 62%, with the exception of an unexplained dip for the 1950s to 44.1%. Then, for the 1990s, the researchers discovered a fall-off from 57.9% to 36.0%, and in the following decade a further decrease, down to a level of 21.5%. During the separately-analyzed period 1980-2009, the percentage of dissertations with at least one of the specified terms in the title as well as in the abstract diminished steadily from well over half (58.4%) for 1980-1984 to less than 1 in 5 (19.8%) for 2005-2009. A chi-square test revealed that the relationship between year of dissertation and term occurrence is statistically significant. By far the greatest decrease, of 15 percentage points, was that between the first half and the second half of the 1990s. Interestingly, during the whole thirty-year period, the percentage where a term appeared not in the title but only in the abstract remained fairly constant, at around 20%, give or take about 2.5 percentage points. Yet when one looks at how many of the dissertations displayed none of the terms in the title and none in the abstract, one sees a continuous increase starting at 20.7% for 1980-1984 all the way up to 61.0% for 2005-2009, with the sharpest climb, of more than 17 percentage points, occurring around the mid-1990s. The distinction between the year 1980 and the year 2009 is even greater: from just over 1 in 7 (14.7%) to more than 3 out of 5 (62.2%). The analysis by institution revealed a statistically significant relationship for the period 1980-2009 between institution at which the dissertation was written and the occurrence of any of the terms at least once in both title and abstract. Certain institutions (most notably SUNY-Albany, Syracuse, Missouri, Hawaii, Montréal, and Long Island) showed a much higher than average overall level of no occurrence, and some (Michigan in particular, but also, for example, Florida State and the University of North Carolina) displayed a remarkably consistent decline in occurrence. Conclusion – The researchers conclude that their study, insofar as North America is concerned, “has provided empirical evidence for . . . the lessening focus in LIS dissertations on topics commonly associated with librarianship” and that it “supports the assertion that this focus varies significantly between schools—with some schools demonstrating a more explicit connection to library-related topics than other schools” (p. 43). They are unsure how best to interpret these findings or how they could be applied, but they do offer certain suggestions for possible interpretations and pose a few questions regarding what those interpretations might imply (p. 44). One could, they suggest, argue that the terms employed in the study “are themselves antiquated, and dissertations are charting new territory, pushing the boundaries of both research and practice.” Another possibility is that “while the dissertations may not be immediately applied work, the work could be utilized for application.” On the other hand, it may simply be the case that the selected terms indeed remain trustworthy indicators, and that doctoral candidates “are no longer studying topics that are relevant to the practical field” of librarianship. One could perhaps even justifiably assert that LIS is in effect no longer a single unified discipline but, rather, has split into a library field and an information field, whereby the latter has been steadily gaining the upper hand in LIS programs, albeit less so at some institutions than at others. In pondering the above alternatives for interpretation of this study’s results, the library practitioner will probably also be inclined to reflect, the authors suggest, on the prospects for adequate academic research support of actual library practice, while keeping in mind, furthermore, that the formal education of future practitioners will largely remain in the hands of those trained as LIS doctoral students. To what extent will these educators feel an affinity with, and possess an understanding of, the world of practical librarianship?

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Metcalf, Alida, and Hal Langfur. "Reflections on Brazil and Life as a Historian: An Interview with Richard Graham." Americas 68, no. 01 (July 2011): 97–114. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003161500000717.

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Richard Graham is one of a handful of historians who shaped the field of Latin American studies in the United States. Graham taught for many years at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is Frances Higginbotham Nalle Centennial Professor of History Emeritus. At Texas he directed more than 20 doctoral dissertations and served as associate editor and then editor of the Hispanic American Historical Review from 1971 to 1975. Graham is the author of five books, among them Britain and the Onset of Modernization in Brazil (1968), Patronage and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Brazil (1990), and Feeding the City: From Street Market to Liberal Reform in Salvador, Brazil, 1780-1860 (2010). He has edited five books, including Machado de Assis: Reflections on a Brazilian Master Writer (1999), Independence in Latin America (1972 and 1994), and The Idea of Race in Latin America (1990); he has published more than 40 articles. He was awarded the Conference on Latin American History's Distinguished Service Award in January 2011 (see his CLAH Luncheon Address in this issue), one of many scholarly honors.

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Metcalf, Alida, and Hal Langfur. "Reflections on Brazil and Life as a Historian: An Interview with Richard Graham." Americas 68, no. 1 (July 2011): 97–114. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/tam.2011.0097.

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Richard Graham is one of a handful of historians who shaped the field of Latin American studies in the United States. Graham taught for many years at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is Frances Higginbotham Nalle Centennial Professor of History Emeritus. At Texas he directed more than 20 doctoral dissertations and served as associate editor and then editor of the Hispanic American Historical Review from 1971 to 1975. Graham is the author of five books, among them Britain and the Onset of Modernization in Brazil (1968), Patronage and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Brazil (1990), and Feeding the City: From Street Market to Liberal Reform in Salvador, Brazil, 1780-1860 (2010). He has edited five books, including Machado de Assis: Reflections on a Brazilian Master Writer (1999), Independence in Latin America (1972 and 1994), and The Idea of Race in Latin America (1990); he has published more than 40 articles. He was awarded the Conference on Latin American History's Distinguished Service Award in January 2011 (see his CLAH Luncheon Address in this issue), one of many scholarly honors.

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Kemeny, Paul C., Arthur P. Young, E. Jens Holley, and Annette Blum. "Religion and the American Experience, 1620-1900: A Bibliography of Doctoral Dissertations." Journal of American History 80, no. 4 (March 1994): 1573. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2080770.

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Schmidt, Nancy J., Joseph J. Lauer, Gregory V. Larkin, and Alfred Kagan. "American and Canadian Doctoral Dissertations and Master's Theses on Africa, 1974-1987." International Journal of African Historical Studies 23, no. 3 (1990): 583. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/219648.

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Moore, Robin. "Directory of Latin American and Caribbean Music Theses and Dissertations since 1988." Latin American Music Review / Revista de Música Latinoamericana 14, no. 1 (1993): 145. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/780012.

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Wong, Ketty. "Directory of Latin American and Caribbean Music Theses and Dissertations (1992-1998)." Latin American Music Review / Revista de Música Latinoamericana 20, no. 2 (1999): 253. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/780024.

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Lucas, Maria Elizabeth. "Directory of Latin American and Caribbean Music Theses and Dissertations (1984-1988)." Latin American Music Review / Revista de Música Latinoamericana 10, no. 1 (1989): 148. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/780387.

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Miller, Caroline L. "Research in urban history: a review of recent theses." Urban History 29, no. 2 (August 2002): 284–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0963926802002092.

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This review is intended to provide a broadly based survey of doctoral theses in urban history completed at British and North American institutions. As in previous years the definition of ‘urban history’ has deliberately been given a wide interpretation that allows the inclusion both of theses that address the physical form of the city and those that address the diversity that emerges from urban life. It is the latter aspect that dominates the topics dealt with in this year's review. While this review provides a brief summary of theses, access to a comprehensive range is available electronically. The Index of Theses is located at http://www.theses.com/ and Dissertations Abstracts International at http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations.

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Dorn, Jacob H., Arthur P. Young, E. Jens Holley, and Phyllis C. Watts. "Religion and the American Experience, the Twentieth Century: A Bibliography of Doctoral Dissertations." Journal of American History 82, no. 4 (March 1996): 1678. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2945460.

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Swanson, Dorothy. "Annual bibliography on American labor history 1983 periodicals, dissertations, and research in progress." Labor History 26, no. 1 (January 1985): 103–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00236568508584787.

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McClymond, Michael J. "God the Measure: Towards an Understanding of Jonathan Edwards' Theocentric Metaphysics." Scottish Journal of Theology 47, no. 1 (February 1994): 43–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0036930600045634.

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Since Perry Millerpos;'s biography of Jonathan Edwards began a new cycle of study some forty years ago, research into Edwards' life and thought has advanced considerably. No longer is the intellectual giant of colonial America surrounded by the obscurity to which early generations had consigned him. Yale is republishing his works. New secondary studies on Edwards appear regularly. Academics from a range of disciplines - history, American studies, theology, philosophy, and literary criticism - have all made Edwards a focus for serious scholarly attention. As an index to the quickening tempo of research, the total number of dissertations on Edwards increased in geometrical proportion during the last half century, doubling during each of the successive decades since 1940.

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Smalley, William A. "Doctoral Dissertations on Mission: Ten-Year Update, 1982–1991." International Bulletin of Missionary Research 17, no. 3 (July 1993): 97–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/239693939301700301.

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Ten years ago the International Bulletin of Missionary Research published a directory of 934 doctoral dissertations on mission-related subjects at theological schools and universities in the United States and Canada. Almost four decades of research were covered, from 1945 through 1982. In this issue we are pleased to present another directory of 512 North American dissertations for the decade 1982–1991. The compiler of the directory and author of the article below is William A. Smalley, a friend and colleague of many years' standing. Now retired in Hamden, Connecticut, he is a near neighbor of the Overseas Ministries Study Center. For twenty-three years Dr. Smalley was a translation consultant with the United Bible Societies, serving primarily in Southeast Asia. During part of that period he also edited Practical Anthropology, and for a time he was principal of the Toronto Institute of Linguistics, which prepares missionary candidates for language and culture learning. Earlier Smalley was a missionary linguist with the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Laos and Vietnam. His most recent book is Translation as Mission: Bible Translation in the Modern Missionary Movement (Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 1991). The Editors

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Wuttisrisiriporn, Niwat. "Comparative Rhetorical Organization of ELT Thesis Introductions Composed by Thai and American Students." English Language Teaching 10, no. 12 (October 29, 2017): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/elt.v10n12p1.

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Genre analysis is today’s dominant approach for textual analysis, especially in the ESP learning and teaching profession. Adopting this approach, the present study compares the Introduction chapters of MA theses in ELT (English Language Teaching) written by Thai students to those written by American university students based on the move-step analysis. Two sets of corpora comprise 30 TSI (Thai student Introduction) and 30 ASI (American student Introduction) Introduction chapters from the theses that followed the traditional five-chapter pattern or ILrMRD. All the TSI and ASI datasets were purposively collected from two electronic databases of graduate theses and dissertations, publicly known ThaiLis Digital Collection and ProQuest Dissertations and Theses. These were subsequently analyzed using genre analysis approach. The modified CARS model introduced by Bunton (2002) guides the move-step analysis. To ensure the coding reliability and consistency, the coding analysis of a subset of the entire datasets between the researcher and an expert coder was checked, and the coding agreement was at a highly satisfactory level. The findings demonstrated that both Thai and American MA students followed the moves and steps proposed in the framework to construct their Introduction chapters rhetorically. Both similarities and differences were discovered in the Introduction chapters investigated, in terms of the communicative purpose, the frequency of move-step occurrences, and the move-step classification. Pedagogical implications drawn from the present study are useful for EAP practitioners and research writing instructors, allowing ESL/EFL teachers to equip their graduate students with an appropriate rhetorical outline for thesis Introduction composition.

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Broyles, Michael. "Letter from the President." Journal of the Society for American Music 1, no. 1 (February 2007): ix—x. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s175219630707006x.

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It is with great pleasure that the Society for American Music and Cambridge University Press jointly launch a new journal devoted to the study of American music. Only a few decades ago, American music topics were ignored, or if acknowledged, appeared as the unexpected article in more mainline journals or were relegated to the corners of conference programs. Within the past three decades, American music's status has changed dramatically. It has grown in size and its presence is secure and stable; what had been activity on the periphery is now squarely in the center. As someone who came of age in the 1960s, I have been able to share in the challenge and the excitement of this burgeoning field. Today it is especially gratifying to witness sophisticated American music scholarship emerging from many continents. Dissertations, books, articles, and papers are being written on American music by scholars throughout the world.

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Bank, Rosemarie K. "Theatre, Culture and Temperance Reform in Nineteenth-Century America. By John W. Frick. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003; pp. 225 + illus. $70 cloth." Theatre Survey 45, no. 2 (November 2004): 288–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0040557404250268.

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From its beginning, John W. Frick's Theatre, Culture and Temperance Reform in Nineteenth-Century America does the work of overhauling the received tradition with respect to melodrama, progressivism, the temperance movement, and social and moral reform in nineteenth-century American theatre. Frick's thesis is that “nineteenth-century temperance drama was born of the intersection of temperance motives and ideology with progressive trends in literature and the arts” (13). Though his definition of progressivism is (I think, too) broad, Theatre, Culture and Temperance Reform is neither a survey of temperance plays (readers are referred to two dissertations that have undertaken this work) nor a survey of progressive trends. Rather, it seeks to illustrate “stages or facets of temperance ideology and/or production” (16).

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Hourdequin, Peter. "JALT2014 Plenary Speaker article: Foreign language teaching and the multilingual subject." Language Teacher 38, no. 4 (July 1, 2014): 8. http://dx.doi.org/10.37546/jalttlt38.4-3.

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Claire Kramsch is Professor of German and Affiliate Professor of Education at the University of California, Berkeley, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Applied Linguistics and directs doctoral dissertations in the German Department and in the Graduate School of Education. She has written extensively on language, discourse, and culture in foreign language education. Two of her books, Context and Culture in Language Teaching (OUP, 1993) and The Multilingual Subject (OUP, 2009) won the Mildenberger Award from the American Modern Language Association. She is the past president of the American Association for Applied Linguistics and the current president of the International Association of Applied Linguistics.

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Moore, J. L. "A Bibliography of Doctoral Dissertations on Aging from American Institutions of Higher Learning, 1981-1983." Journal of Gerontology 40, no. 4 (July 1, 1985): 509–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geronj/40.4.509.

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Moore, J. L. "A Bibliography of Doctoral Dissertations on Aging From American Institutions of Higher Learning, 1983-1985." Journal of Gerontology 41, no. 4 (July 1, 1986): 535–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geronj/41.4.535.

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Moore, J. L. "A Bibliography of Doctoral Dissertations on Aging from American Institutions of Higher Learning, 1984-1986." Journal of Gerontology 42, no. 5 (September 1, 1987): 561–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geronj/42.5.561.

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Riegel, B., JL Banasik, J. Barnsteiner, P. Beecroft, L. Kern, R. Lindquist, S. Prevost, and M. Titler. "Reviews and summaries of research related to AACN 1980 research priorities: clinical topics." American Journal of Critical Care 2, no. 5 (September 1, 1993): 413–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.4037/ajcc1993.2.5.413.

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This article reviews and summarizes the research conducted following publication of the 1980s American Association of Critical-Care Nurses' clinical research priorities. Original research conducted on the clinical priority topics between 1981 and 1991 was included. Review articles, doctoral dissertations, theses and abstracts were excluded unless judged to provide important information on the topic. Following the statement of each priority, progress in the area is summarized. Limitations and measurement issues are discussed as appropriate. Recommendations for future research are provided, and progress in the area is summarized.

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Riegel, B., JL Banasik, J. Barnsteiner, P. Beecroft, L. Kern, R. Lindquist, S. Prevost, and M. Titler. "Reviews and summaries of research related to AACN 1980 research priorities: contextual topics." American Journal of Critical Care 3, no. 4 (July 1, 1994): 260–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.4037/ajcc1994.3.4.260.

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This article reviews and summarizes the research conducted following publication of the 1980s American Association of Critical-Care Nurses' contextual research priorities. Reports of original research conducted on the contextual priority topics between 1981 and 1991 were included. Review articles, doctoral dissertations, theses, and abstracts were excluded unless judged to provide important information on the topic. Following the statement of each priority, progress in the area is summarized. Limitations and measurement issues are discussed as appropriate. Recommendations for future research are provided, and progress in the area is summarized.

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Shivaram, B. S., and B. S. Biradar. "Grey literature archiving pattern in open access (OA) repositories with special emphasis on Indian OA repositories." Electronic Library 37, no. 1 (February 4, 2019): 95–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/el-05-2018-0100.

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Purpose This paper aims to examine the grey literature archiving pattern at open-access repositories with special reference to Indian open-access repositories. Design/methodology/approach The Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE) was used to collect data from different document types archived by open-access repositories across the world. Data were collected by advanced search and browse features available at the BASE on document types, the number of repositories by country wise and Indian academic and research repositories. Data were tabulated using MS Excel for further analysis. Findings Findings indicated that open-access repositories across the world are primarily archiving reviewed literature. Grey literature is archived more at European and North American repositories compared to rest of the world. Reports, theses, dissertations and data sets are the major grey document types archived. In India, a significant contributor to the BASE index with 146 open-access sources, reviewed literature is the largest archived document types, and grey literature is above world average due to the presence of theses and dissertations at repositories of academic institutions. Originality/value Grey literature is considered as valuable sources of information for research and development. The study enables to get insights about the amount of grey content archived at open-access repositories. These findings can further be used to investigate the reasons/technology limitations for the lesser volume of grey content in repositories. Furthermore, this study helps to better understand the grey literature archiving pattern and need for corrective measures based on the success stories of repositories of Europe and North America.

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Doyle, Barry M. "Research in urban history: a review of recent theses." Urban History 26, no. 2 (August 1999): 273–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0963926899000279.

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Returning to the pattern of previous years, this review provides a broad overview of recent unpublished doctoral theses from both Britain and the United States – mostly completed in 1997. Employing a broad interpretation of ‘urban history’ which includes both the history of, and history in, urban areas, it consists of brief summaries based on abstracts published in the Aslib Index to Theses [ASLIB] and Dissertations Abstracts International[DAI]. The thirty-nine dissertations explore subjects ranging chronologically from the third millennium BC to the 1990s, with the majority covering the late nineteenth through to the mid-twentieth centuries, with another smaller concentration focusing on the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Spatially most cover British (15) and North American (10) subjects, though there are studies of elements of urban history in France, Germany, China, Venezuela and Cape Colony, as well as studies comparing British cities with similar places in France and Holland, Ireland and the United States. Though many different types of urban settlement are represented in the theses under review – including some of the earliest in Syro-Palestine – the British selection is dominated by work on London (7) along with a smaller number covering Belfast and Liverpool, whilst American studies include four exploring aspects of late nineteenth- and early-twentieth century Chicago and two on Caracas, Venezuela, in the same period. In terms of subject, ‘space’ – the theme of the recent Urban History Group conference in Oxford – features prominently, as does cultural politics ranging from a redefinition of the meaning of ‘misrule’ in the medieval period to two studies of the importance of culture in the American Civil Rights Movement and the eighteenth-century British and Irish port town. These newer organizing concepts and locations feature alongside the more usual subjects such as the law, policing, leisure, gender and ethnicity and a revival of interest in London, especially in the early modern period.

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Meyer-Arendt, Klaus J. "Commentary: Tourism geography as the subject of North American Doctoral dissertations and Master's theses, 1951-98." Tourism Geographies 2, no. 2 (January 2000): 140–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14616680050027860.

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Alhojailan, Ahmad I. "Changes Beyond Limits: Proofreading in an American University." International Journal of Linguistics 11, no. 5 (October 16, 2019): 169. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/ijl.v11i5.15280.

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Students are usually asked to submit term papers, reports, research proposals, dissertations, theses, etc. for assessment purposes. Unfortunately, not all students are able to write at the level that their professors expect. Therefore, students are encouraged by their professors to have their papers carefully proofread before submission. This study investigates the beliefs, practices, and experiences of proofreaders who proofread students’ writing, along with different issues related to proofreading. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with two proofreaders studying for their Ph.D. in the English Department in a university in the American Southwest. The results show that a misunderstanding of the role of a proofreader exists between proofreaders and student writers and among proofreaders themselves. My findings also show that proofreading is used only for academic survival. I highlight how the educational system and the proofreaders' qualifications have affected the description of proofreading. The results emphasize the need for implementing regulations for proofreading services to guarantee that they are standardized and administered consistently to avoid misrepresentation of students' true writing abilities, and to maintain a good reputation for universities with respect to their graduates' writing skills.

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Ribeiro, Renata Perfeito, and Patricia Aroni. "Standardization, ethics and biometric indicators in scientific publication: integrative review." Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem 72, no. 6 (December 2019): 1723–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0034-7167-2018-0283.

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ABSTRACT Objective: to analyze scientific evidence available in health literature on ethics, standardization and biometric indicators. Method: an integrative review carried out in August 2016, on the databases: National Library of Medicine, Literatura Latino-Americana e do Caribe em Ciências da Saúde (Latin-American and Caribbean Literature on Health Sciences), and on the library Scientific Electronic Library Online. The review included primary articles on: ethics, standardization and biometric indicators, in Portuguese, English, or Spanish; and excluded studies that were not found as full texts, as well as opinions, commentary, reviews, theses, and dissertations. For the evaluation of the articles, it was used evidence levels from one to five. Results: eight articles were included, with scientific evidence levels 4 and 5: scientific productivism, production evaluation systems, internationalization, impact factor, classification of journals, and adequate and inadequate practices for publication. Conclusion: it was verified the need for publications with higher evidence levels so that Brazilian journals can follow international standards dealing with research ethics.

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Schadl, Suzanne M., and Marina Todeschini. "Cite Globally, Analyze Locally: Citation Analysis from a Local Latin American Studies Perspective." College & Research Libraries 76, no. 2 (March 1, 2015): 136–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/crl.76.2.136.

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This citation analysis examines the use of Spanish- and Portuguese-language books and articles in PhD dissertations on Latin America at the University of New Mexico between 2000 and 2009. Two sets of data are presented: The first identifies the use of Spanish- and Portuguese-language books and articles across 17 academic departments; and the second analyzes how well local holdings meet demands for a select geographical area—Mexico. These local data contradict conclusions in general citation studies of the humanities, social sciences and foreign languages. They prove that preconceived ideas about foreign language usage from general citation studies do not provide reliable templates for local acquisition decisions. Librarians need to look at their research communities and local usage habits instead of relying on general studies for answers.

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MILLER, CAROLINE L. "Research in urban history: a review of recent theses." Urban History 34, no. 2 (June 20, 2007): 353–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0963926807004695.

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The writing of this review has been complicated this year due to the fact that it has had to be prepared rather earlier than in the past, which has somewhat skewed the careful construction of statistical comparisons that have been developed over previous years. The problem is compounded by the fact that last year's review was, in turn, also prepared earlier than in previous years, leading to a backlog on 2005 theses to be reported. The change of schedule also means that the British and Irish thesis list, the Index of Theses located at http://www.theses.com/, has not yet reported on the 2006 theses, while the American Dissertations International located at http://wwwli.umi.com/ dissertations has reported many of the 2006 theses. Thus this review is a slightly mixed offering in that it features theses from both 2005 and 2006, but it is hoped that this problem will have been overcome by 2008. It was, however, not difficult to find theses which fit the liberal definition of urban history that has always underpinned this review. For the first time it was necessary to cull severely the identified theses to produce a reasonable coverage of topics and a manageable number of theses to review. This suggests that urban history continues to be a vibrant and productive discipline.

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Banegas, Dario Luis, Paige Michael Poole, and Kathleen A. Corrales. "Content and language integrated learning in Latin America 2008-2018: Ten years of research and practice." Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching 10, no. 2 (June 29, 2020): 283–305. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/ssllt.2020.10.2.4.

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Bilingual education, usually a community’s L1 and English continues spreading geographically and across educational systems worldwide. With this expansion, the development of bilingual education approaches is under constant scrutiny. One recent approach is content and language integrated learning (CLIL). European in origin, CLIL can be viewed as an educational or language teaching approach and it refers to the teaching of curricular content and L2 in an integrated manner. This approach has received international attention, yet, how CLIL unfolds in settings outside Europe appears underrepresented in international publications. The aim of this article is to provide a critical review of CLIL in Latin America between 2008 and 2018. We surveyed 64 items (articles, book chapters, and dissertations) published in regional and international outlets: 41 empirical studies, 19 practice-oriented publications, and four reviews. It begins by summarizing the CLIL continuum with a focus on content- and language-driven CLIL and CLIL frameworks. It then provides a synthesis of empirical studies and practice-oriented publications about CLIL in different Latin American settings. The corpus is analyzed following these unifying themes: pedagogy, perceptions and beliefs, teacher education, global citizenship, and language development. From this review, it transpires that Latin American CLIL is mostly implemented and examined from a language-driven perspective in private primary, secondary and higher education. Suggestions and implications for further research and practice are included.

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Noll, Mark A. "Review Article: “American Religious Thought of the 18th and 19th Centuries”." Church History 58, no. 2 (June 1989): 211–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3168725.

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Perry Miller, with characteristic lése majesté, told readers of his New England Mind that, if they wanted to see his footnotes, they would have to make a pilgrimage to the Harvard College Library (The Seventeenth Century [New York, 1939], p. ix). Times have changed, and at least some scholars have become more accommodating. Bruce Kuklick, for example, not only provided notes for his “New England Mind”—the superb recent study Churchmen and Philosophers from Jonathan Edwards to John Dewey (New Haven, 1985)—but now, through the good offices of Garland Publishing, has made available many of the sources to which those notes refer in American Religious Thought of the 18th and 19th Centuries: A Thirty-two Volume Set Reprinting the Works of Leading American Theologians from Jonathan Edwards to John Dewey and including Recent Dissertations (New York: Garland Publishing, 1988), $2,290. Kuklick and Garland deserve highest commendation for rescuing from unwarranted obscurity the authors and works reprinted here. The set's title may be inaccurate, and one may quibble about the exact lineup of books and articles included, but these volumes remain a magnificent achievement.

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Forkl, Hermann. "Publish or Perish, or How to Write a Social History of the Wàndala (Northern Cameroon)." History in Africa 17 (January 1990): 77–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3171807.

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It has been in the tradition of this journal to elaborate a methodological apparatus to scrutinize the evidence of older written sources on African history. However, for various reasons, we tend to apply a different standard to recent sources, apparently considering them reliable per se because they developed in the same enlightened context of Western intellectual life as our own. Book reviews, nearly the only refuge for Western self criticism, sometimes cannot achieve it, as I will show.The source on which I would like to comment is a dissertation completed at Boston University in 1984. It is based on oral traditions and for this reason, strictly speaking, a written source itself, apart from a number of published as well as archival sources, whose way of quotation will be re-examined below at first. The interviews were conducted by the author in 1974/75 (Morrissey 1984:225) with north Cameroonian Wandala and Shuwa Arab informants, some of whom I became acquainted with during my own fieldwork in 1984.1 would argue, though, that the following comments are not solely of interest to scholars specializing in northern Cameroon.It might seem to some rather heavy-handed to criticize so closely a doctoral dissertation, but American dissertations are freely available to interested parties in both photocopy and microfilm. As a result they are commonly cited in other works in much the same way as more formally published studies. This being the case, it seems reasonable to submit them to the same scrutiny as any other work in the public domain. I should point out that I conducted my own fieldwork in ignorance of Morrissey's work, becoming aware of the latter only after my return from the field in 1984.

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Somit, Albert, Steven A. Peterson, and Denise Peer. "1986: Boom Year for Biopolitics." Politics and the Life Sciences 6, no. 1 (August 1987): 58–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0730938400002768.

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As our title indicates, by almost every measure, 1986 was a good year for biopolitics. First, the total number of items which appeared, 116, set an all-time record (the previous high was 92 in 1985). Second, there continued to be an influx of new entrants, with 22 first-time contributors emerging from our literature search. Third, 15 percent of the items were written by non-American political scientists, up from last year's 10 percent and an indication, we believe, of the healthy growth in international interest. Fourth, and perhaps best of all, five biopolitical dissertations-in-progress, or actually completed, were listed in the annual PS compilation, a nice upturn from 1984's low.

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