To Finish Your Dissertation…

"The dissertation is the monument to the moment when the committee gave up" ~ Dr. D. Barry Lumsden

For the last four or so months, the number of clients receiving feedback from professors pasted directly from AI like Claude, ChatGPT, etc. has grown. The number of professors using AI for more and more rounds of feedback, instead of thoroughly reading the content with their own damned eyes has increased. These professors are abdicating …

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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 …

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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 …

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