Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day: A Guide to Starting, Revising, and Finishing Your Doctoral Thesis

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Henry Holt and Company, 15 באוג׳ 1998 - 208 עמודים

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.

 

תוכן

1 Beginning
3
2 Choosing an Advisor and a Committee
19
3 Getting Started Writing
32
4 From Zero to First Draft
49
Reviewing Your Process and Your Progress
63
6 Interruptions from Outside and Inside
80
7 You Your Readers and the Dissertation Support Group
99
The Second Draft and Beyond
116
9 The Best Dissertation Is a Done Dissertation
127
10 Life After the Dissertation
136
Appendix I
151
Appendix II
159
Some Useful Books and Articles
171
Index
173
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מידע על המחבר (1998)

Editor of the best-selling The Writers Home Companion, Joan Bolker, Ed.D., has taught writing at Harvard, Wellesley, Brandeis, and Bard colleges. She is currently a psychotherapist whose speciality is working with struggling writers. She lives in Newton, Massachusetts.

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