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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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 …

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