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Writing your dissertation in fifteen minutes a day, a guide to starting, revising, and finishing your doctoral thesis, Joan Bolker

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Writing your dissertation in fifteen minutes a day, a guide to starting, revising, and finishing your doctoral thesis, Joan Bolker

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-172) and index

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Writing your dissertation in fifteen minutes a day

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electronic resource eBook

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bibliographydictionaries

Responsibility statement

Joan Bolker

Sub title

a guide to starting, revising, and finishing your doctoral thesis

Summary

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. -- Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Beginning -- Choosing an advisor and a committee -- Getting started writing -- From zero to first draft -- Getting to the midpoint -- Interruptions from outside and inside -- You, your readers, and the dissertation support group -- Revising -- The best dissertation is a done dissertation -- Life after the dissertation

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