The SAGE Handbook of Digital Dissertations and Theses

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.

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 PhD 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 PhD 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 MacDonald 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 PhDs - Lisa Stansbie PART SIX: RESEARCH METHODS A Modern PhD: 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 DeJaynes Implication for Research Training and Examination for Design PhDs - Joyce S.R. Yee Uncaged Boxed-up - Ralf Nuhn Index

'This handbook marks a major turning point in the production of dissertation and theses. Scholarly communication has been changing rapidly, embracing the latest in web searching, social media, and online and open access journals. Yet, attention to the dissertation - the hallmark of an academic education - has been sorely missing. This handbook identifies and explores the multiple ways in which electronic means are becoming an integral part of the production of dissertations today, as well as looking at the scope in the future scope for bringing electronic and new media forms into the final form of the dissertation. The handbook first situates the dissertation in its historical and institutional perpectives, and then addresses the transformation from print to digital in dissertations from supervision to production to archiving and accessibility. Finally, the handbook wraps up with a section on research methodologies and methods that rounds out the book with advice for prospective students on how to be the creator of a digital dissertation from inception to final delivery. This will be essential reading for all involved in contemporary university education' - Caroline Haythornthwaite, Director and Professor at the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies at the University of British Columbia