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 EnglandPART ONE: INSTITUTIONAL PERSPECTIVESThe Thesis: Texts and Machines - Erik Borg and Stephen Boyd DavisNew Forms of Dissertation - Richard Andrews and Jude EnglandThe Role of Doctoral and Graduate Schools - Richard P.J. Freeman and Andrew TolmieDigital Literacies for the Research Institution - Helen Beetham, Allison Littlejohn and Colin MilliganPART TWO: STUDENT PERSPECTIVESMedia Systems, Multimodality and Post-Humanism - Lesley GourlayReframing the Performing Arts - Zoe Beardshaw AndrewsComplexity Theory - June Elizabeth ParnellRe-Imagining the Conditions of Possibility of a PhD Thesis - Jude FransmanTraditional Theses and Multimodal Communication - Dylan Yamada-RicePART THREE: ETHICAL AND INTERCULTURAL ISSUESEthics and Representation - Bronwyn T. Williams and Mary Brydon-MillerCopyright Managment Approaches - Brian Fitzgerald and Damien O′BrienUnderstanding Identity Representations in Multimodal Research - Pauline Hope CheongThe Social Life of Digital Texts in Multimodal Research - Myrrh DomingoPART FOUR: MULTIMODALITY,INCLUDING THE REPRESENTATION AND PRESENTATION OF THESES AND DISSERTATIONSResearching in Conditions of Provisionality: Reflecting on the PhD in the Digital and Multimodal Era - Gunther KressPractice-as-Research in Music Performance - Mine Dogantan-DackTranslating Lydia Cabrera: A Case Study in Digital (Re)Presentation - Anna-Marjatta MilsomDisciplinary ′Specificity′ and the Digital Submission - Susan MelroseDigits and Figures: A Manual Drawing Practice and Its Modes of Reproduction - Juliet MacDonaldPART FIVE: ARCHIVING, STORAGE AND ACCESSIBILITY IN THE DIGITAL AGEThe Research Catalogue: A Model for Dissertations and Theses - Michael SchwabThe Changing Role of Library and Information Services - Joanna NewmanAnimating the Archive - Martin RieserEstablishing the Cybertextual in Practice-Based PhDs - Lisa StansbiePART SIX: RESEARCH METHODSA Modern PhD: Doctoral Education in Australian Universities in Digital Times - Ilana Snyder and Denise BealeHow Changes in Representation Can Affect Meaning - Amy Alexandra WilsonResearching Adoloscents′ Literacies Multimodally - Lalitha Vasudevan and Tiffany DeJaynesImplication for Research Training and Examination for Design PhDs - Joyce S.R. YeeUncaged Boxed-up - Ralf NuhnIndex

′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