Doris Watson, Kim Nehls (both Educational Psychology & Higher Education) and Shaoan Zhang (Teaching and Learning) have recently been published in Storey & Hesbol (Eds.) (2016) Contemporary Approaches to Dissertation Development and Research Methods (New York: IGI-Global Publishers).  Watson and Nehls contributed chapter 4,  "Alternative Dissertation Formats: Preparing Scholars for the Academy and Beyond." Zhang, contributed chapter 17 "Principles of Discussion in Qualitative Educational Research."