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Title: THE DISSERTATION: Writing, Advisement and Getting Started


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THE DISSERTATION Writing, Advisement and
Getting Started
  • Directed Research
  • Walker Collins

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Why Do We Have ABD Inertia?
  • The newness of the experience
  • The process is an independent one
  • Transition from a practitioner to a scholar

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What are the advantages?
  • Build writing skills
  • Develop analytical skills
  • Develop the ability to synthesize complicated
    information
  • Acquire invaluable research skills

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What are the advantages?
  • Produce information that can improve schools
  • Create a body of work that others can draw on

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What are some sources of frustration?
  • Managing your topic
  • Your topic is not carved in stone
  • Using the literature and other dissertations to
    help shape your dissertation
  • Keeping your mentor informed

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Mentors- Managing Your Mentor and Committee
  • Assignment of Mentors
  • Role of the Mentor
  • Formulating a Dissertation Committee
  • Working with your Mentor and Committee Members

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Things to work on
  • Time Management (block out at least 30 mins. each
    day to work on the dissertation )
  • Choose a scheduling strategy that works for you-
    example hours or minutes worked, problem solved,
    pages written etc.
  • Keep a dissertation planner
  • Stick to your schedule

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Planning to work when, where and how
  • Work during the times that you are most
    productive
  • Work in a space where you can be productive
  • Figure out how you work best, and try to work
    that way

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Internal Stresses
  • Competition with other Cohort Members
  • Procrastination-
  • Competing demands on your time
  • Unexpected events

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Tips for Writing Consistently
  • What to do when you dont feel like writing
  • Make a list of small things to do for a given
    section- eg photocopying an article
  • Work on references
  • Free write
  • Work on your acknowledgements

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How Do I Encourage Myself?
  • Be reasonable- dont expect that your first draft
    will be the greatest.
  • Talk to cohort members who are productive- get
    tips from them
  • Keep a binder- as you work on your chapters print
    the pages and put them in a notebook with
    dividers
  • Keep the notebook with you

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The Process
  • Getting Started
  • The Dissertation Proposal
  • The Dissertation Proposal Defense
  • The Institutional Review Board and the Pre/IRB
    Review Process
  • The Elements of the Dissertation
  • The Oral Defense
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