Writing Your Doctoral Dissertation Or Thesis Faster

Author : E. Alana James,Tracesea H. Slater
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781483324395

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Writing Your Doctoral Dissertation or Thesis Faster by E. Alana James,Tracesea H. Slater Pdf

A doctoral dissertation is arguably the most important journey that students will embark upon in their professional careers, so smart travelers will want E. Alana James and Tracesea H. Slater’s Writing Your Doctoral Dissertation or Thesis Faster: A Proven Map to Success at their fingertips. James and Slater identify the key places and challenges that create extra stress during the dissertation process, and offer effective strategies and tools to address those challenges and ensure academic success. Their map walks readers through each step of the process, including: • determining the research topic, • choosing appropriate methods, • turning a hypothesis into a study, • completing a literature review, • writing and defending a proposal, • collecting and analyzing data, • writing up the study, and • ultimately defending the dissertation. Building on years of experience with doctoral students, the authors provide a comprehensive, yet easy-to-use tool that encourages student reflection; includes student stories, hints, and writing tips; and provides end-of-chapter checklists and ideas for incorporating social media. With the proven techniques and guidance of this indispensable and applied book, doctoral students will finish their thesis or dissertation—faster!

Author : Joan Bolker
Publisher : Holt Paperbacks
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1998-08-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781429968881

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Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day by Joan Bolker Pdf

Expert writing advice from the editor of the Boston Globe best-seller, The Writer's Home Companion Dissertation writers need strong, practical advice, as well as someone to assure them that their struggles aren't unique. Joan Bolker, midwife to more than one hundred dissertations and co-founder of the Harvard Writing Center, offers invaluable suggestions for the graduate-student writer. Using positive reinforcement, she begins by reminding thesis writers that being able to devote themselves to a project that truly interests them can be a pleasurable adventure. She encourages them to pay close attention to their writing method in order to discover their individual work strategies that promote productivity; to stop feeling fearful that they may disappoint their advisors or family members; and to tailor their theses to their own writing style and personality needs. Using field-tested strategies she assists the student through the entire thesis-writing process, offering advice on choosing a topic and an advisor, on disciplining one's self to work at least fifteen minutes each day; setting short-term deadlines, on revising and defing the thesis, and on life and publication after the dissertation. Bolker makes writing the dissertation an enjoyable challenge.

Author : Evelyn Hunt Ogden
Publisher : R&L Education
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1997-07-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781461648444

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Completing Your Doctoral Dissertation/Master's Thesis in Two Semesters or Less by Evelyn Hunt Ogden Pdf

A long-term bestseller, this book is a pragmatic step-by-step guide to completing you dissertation or thesis during two semesters, in fifty workdays or less. It covers advisor and topic selection, proposal development, data collection and organization, available assistance, writing, and defense. The author demystifies the process and provides you with essential guidance through the rites of passage that are an integral part of completing your degree.

Author : Ian Smith,Mark Stephan Felix
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-20
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781527538764

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A Practical Guide to Dissertation and Thesis Writing by Ian Smith,Mark Stephan Felix Pdf

This book provides a step-by-step guide to writing the different chapters of a PhD dissertation, which will benefit aspiring, beginner and mid-track PhD students and candidates in the Social Sciences. Based on the authors’ combined experience of working with both Masters and PhD students through the dissertation writing process, it offers helpful writing guidelines, from the conceptualization and problematization of the dissertation through to the literature review, methodological issues, writing up results and, finally, to the discussion, conclusions and abstract writing process. With chapters dedicated to offering guidelines, suggestions and pitfalls to watch out for, this book will assist PhD students and candidates in the fields of the various Social Sciences with exercises and pointers on successfully navigating the writing of a PhD dissertation. It takes the PhD student in the Social Sciences through the maze of writing a dissertation, and provides a step-by-step train of thought throughout the entire writing process.

Author : Umberto Eco
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780262328760

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How to Write a Thesis by Umberto Eco Pdf

Umberto Eco's wise and witty guide to researching and writing a thesis, published in English for the first time. By the time Umberto Eco published his best-selling novel The Name of the Rose, he was one of Italy's most celebrated intellectuals, a distinguished academic and the author of influential works on semiotics. Some years before that, in 1977, Eco published a little book for his students, How to Write a Thesis, in which he offered useful advice on all the steps involved in researching and writing a thesis—from choosing a topic to organizing a work schedule to writing the final draft. Now in its twenty-third edition in Italy and translated into seventeen languages, How to Write a Thesis has become a classic. Remarkably, this is its first, long overdue publication in English. Eco's approach is anything but dry and academic. He not only offers practical advice but also considers larger questions about the value of the thesis-writing exercise. How to Write a Thesis is unlike any other writing manual. It reads like a novel. It is opinionated. It is frequently irreverent, sometimes polemical, and often hilarious. Eco advises students how to avoid “thesis neurosis” and he answers the important question “Must You Read Books?” He reminds students “You are not Proust” and “Write everything that comes into your head, but only in the first draft.” Of course, there was no Internet in 1977, but Eco's index card research system offers important lessons about critical thinking and information curating for students of today who may be burdened by Big Data. How to Write a Thesis belongs on the bookshelves of students, teachers, writers, and Eco fans everywhere. Already a classic, it would fit nicely between two other classics: Strunk and White and The Name of the Rose. Contents The Definition and Purpose of a Thesis • Choosing the Topic • Conducting Research • The Work Plan and the Index Cards • Writing the Thesis • The Final Draft

Author : Rita S. Brause
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135711498

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Writing Your Doctoral Dissertation by Rita S. Brause Pdf

Increasing numbers of adults are enroling in doctoral programmes, but their earlier college lives often do not prepare them for the rules of the academic game. Many have no idea what a dissertation looks like, how it gets that way, or what options are available to them. This book is a practical guide for students who need help in progressing from the decision to write a dissertation to the planning, writing and defending of it. It includes samples of proposals and dissertations that have been accepted and data drawn from a number of sources, including focus groups with doctoral students and graduates and responses to an open-ended questionnaire from doctoral students across the United States.

Author : Patrick Dunleavy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780230802087

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Authoring a PhD by Patrick Dunleavy Pdf

This engaging and highly regarded book takes readers through the key stages of their PhD research journey, from the initial ideas through to successful completion and publication. It gives helpful guidance on forming research questions, organising ideas, pulling together a final draft, handling the viva and getting published. Each chapter contains a wealth of practical suggestions and tips for readers to try out and adapt to their own research needs and disciplinary style. This text will be essential reading for PhD students and their supervisors in humanities, arts, social sciences, business, law, health and related disciplines.

Author : Gordon B. Davis
Publisher : Barrons Educational Series
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0812098005

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Writing the Doctoral Dissertation by Gordon B. Davis Pdf

Here is the first book a prospective doctoral candidate should read. Updated to reflect both modern technological advances and the realities of contemporary academia, it serves as an excellent overview of the dissertation process in most academic fields. Advice starts with selecting an advisor and a dissertation committee, then covers problems connected with selecting a dissertation topic, submitting the proposal, working with an advisor, and writing and defending the dissertation.

Author : Rita S. Brause
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135711504

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Writing Your Doctoral Dissertation by Rita S. Brause Pdf

Increasing numbers of adults are enroling in doctoral programmes, but their earlier college lives often do not prepare them for the rules of the academic game. Many have no idea what a dissertation looks like, how it gets that way, or what options are available to them. This book is a practical guide for students who need help in progressing from the decision to write a dissertation to the planning, writing and defending of it. It includes samples of proposals and dissertations that have been accepted and data drawn from a number of sources, including focus groups with doctoral students and graduates and responses to an open-ended questionnaire from doctoral students across the United States.

Author : Rita Susan Brause
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:256832771

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Writing Your Doctoral Dissertation by Rita Susan Brause Pdf

Author : P. Paul Heppner,Mary J. Heppner
Publisher : Brooks/Cole Publishing Company
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Education
ISBN : 0534559743

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Writing and Publishing Your Thesis, Dissertation, and Research by P. Paul Heppner,Mary J. Heppner Pdf

This book provides masters and doctoral students with an in-depth and comprehensive guide to the process of writing a thesis or dissertation. It breaks down this often foreboding and overwhelming goal into achievable steps, presenting models that prepare readers for each stage of the process. Within each step, the authors supply all the tools and detailed instructions necessary for the successful completion of a thesis or dissertation. Along the way, the book offers readers skills and techniques that can help them cope more effectively with the psychological or emotional blocks that often get in the way of accomplishing their goal.

Author : Scott Rank
Publisher : Scholarpreneur Press
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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How Finish Your Dissertation in Six Months or Less, Even if You Don't Know What to Write by Scott Rank Pdf

It is possible to finish your thesis in 6 months, even if you don’t know what to write or haven’t finished your research. In this short ebook, Scott Rank distills the principles that helped him go from crippling writer’s block to writing 500-1000 words a day. In this book you will learn the following: A simple daily habit that will help you start writing your dissertation How to make it impossible not to write everyday How to write even if all your research isn’t finished How to get the most out of your advisor meetings How to get your friends actively help you finish, even if they aren’t academics.

Author : James E. Mauch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1027149295

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Guide to the Successful Thesis and Dissertation by James E. Mauch Pdf

Author : Christine Pearson Casanave
Publisher : University of Michigan Press ELT
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780472037902

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During the Dissertation by Christine Pearson Casanave Pdf

“A textual mentor like During the Dissertation can fill a void in writers’ lives at a time of solitude, uncertainty, and anxiety. Keep it under your pillow.” This volume is a sequel to Casanave’s popular Before the Dissertation. Like that volume, this book is designed as a companion for doctoral dissertation writers of qualitative or mixed methods work in fields related to language education. It could also benefit those writing master’s theses and those writing in other social science fields. It is meant to be consulted once the writing has begun—once students have settled on a topic, designed the project, or collected the data—because this is the time when they are analyzing, drafting, revising, polishing, and probably fretting, deleting, reconstructing, and even losing sleep. Also, like its predecessor, it is not designed to teach anyone how to write a dissertation as there are plenty of those available elsewhere. For most doctoral students, writing will happen at different stages of the project. Strategies for timing of these kinds of writing differ across students, and also across supervisors and advisers. If dissertation writers do not know by the time they start writing which strategies and issues pertain to them, this book can help them craft some approaches to suit their own personalities, preferred practices, and individual goals and visions, as well as help them figure out how dissertation writing might fit into the real-life intrusions of work and family. Issues covered in the book are: starting to write, envisioning the project as a whole, relationships with supervisors, perfectionism and other maladies, health, low- and high-IQ days, loneliness and isolation, distractions and interruptions, revising, and knowing when to stop.

Author : Brian Paltridge,Sue Starfield
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2007-06-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134195343

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Thesis and Dissertation Writing in a Second Language by Brian Paltridge,Sue Starfield Pdf

The relationship of supervisor to student has traditionally been seen as one of apprenticeship, in which much learning is tacit, with the expectation that the student will become much like the tutor. The changing demographics of higher education in conjunction with imperatives of greater accountability and support for research students have rendered this scenario both less likely and less desirable and unfortunately many supervisors are challenged by the task of guiding non-native speaker students to completion. This handbook is the ideal guide for all supervisors working with undergraduate and postgraduate non-native speaker students writing a thesis or dissertation in English as it explicitly unpacks thesis writing, using language that is accessible to research supervisors from any discipline.