Principles and Practices of Transformative Online Doctoral Mentoring—A Mentor’s Perspective

Table 1.

The DissertationResearch Process


#	Step	Description

1	Problem	Define the broad problem and its significance.
2	Grounding Literature	Ground the study in the existing literature.
3	Purpose	Specify the research focus.
4	Research Questions	Describe the research questions.*
5	Research Method	Select the general research approach.
6	Research Design	Describe the specific research design elements.
7	Proposal	Create the detailed research plan.
8	Research	Conduct the study.
9	Dissertation	Present the findings.
10	Publication	Publish the findings.