We sometimes feel like we need to avoid any indication of any reduction in strength, whether personally or professionally. I am guilty of this logical fallacy myself. However, I have continually observed over my nearly 20 years of dissertation coaching that going through the dissertation process alone consumes more time and money than going through …
Remember how you wrote all your papers for classes by mostly using the introduction/literature reviews of articles? Don’t do that. Step 1: Collect sources Use your institution’s databases before Google Scholar or just plain old Duck Duck Go/Google/Bing/Yahoo/etc. EBSCOHost and the like allow you to search by dates and peer review status. Mix and match …
I shared the APA spelling information with my clients and decided it was a good time to throw the same information into my blog! Many of you work in places or attend universities in which arguments about whether to capitalize “internet” as a proper noun or to use a hyphen for “semistructured” occur. Twenty years …
The qualifying exam, the specialty or specialization paper, or the comprehensive presentation of the literature on a topic of interest to you as assigned by the professors are all labels I have heard associated with the last hurdle to becoming dissertation/treatise eligible. This paper has also been referred to as SQE, SQR, CPP, CQE, and …
How would you recommend organizing work during a Ph.D. thesis writing period? I am not sure what you mean by “writing period.” When starting out with new students who are confused by their professors’ preferences for bogging them down in the literature review phase, I follow a different organizational structure. I tell my students that …
To Finish Your Dissertation... 