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As a current graduate student in a doctoral program, you have committed to completing a course of study that few people follow. If you complete coursework, pass qualifying exams (or a set of exams over multiple years), and conduct and defend a dissertation study, you will be awarded—you will have earned—a doctoral degree. In fact, if you successfully complete these degree requirements, you will join the ranks of about 1% of the U.S. population with doctoral degrees (Nettles & Millett, 2006).

Designing an executable—doable to done—dissertation study relates directly what you propose to do methodologically (and otherwise). This is particularly relevant in qualitative research, which requires fieldwork—more on this in Chapter 6. What is important here is to consider the factors that shape how you spend or will spend time in your study—and what tends to impede progress during project implementation. For example, will you sample and recruit in your own organization or need to access and gain permission offsite? Will you travel or stay local for data collection? Consider sampling, recruitment, and data collection activities in your timeline. Think about what the scope of your dissertation study is.

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