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 …
Whoever possesses the dissertation draft controls the dissertation’s progress. Follow this rule always. If the professor has the draft, your progress has come to the proverbial red light–they are on offense, and you are on the sidelines. You are well advised NOT to touch the version of the document you sent the professor, even if …
To Finish Your Dissertation... 