If you are a doctoral student, you must go through a very long and tedious process in order to successfully submit your doctoral dissertation. Each part of the process is fully dependent on the others (i.e., your chair and committee); this makes it near impossible to ignore or downplay certain aspects of the dissertation. Moreover, each of these steps, from the conception and proposal phases, to the research, drafting, and defense phases, is completely unique in its own way. Furthermore, a … [Read more...]
Statistical Symbols in Your Dissertation
Dissertation Stress? Among the most challenging tasks for a doctoral student is the successful submission of the dissertation, which is required work for all doctorate-level degrees. For almost all doctoral candidates, the process of writing a dissertation can be a very arduous and tedious task, often causing a large amount of stress and anxiety. There are many factors that contribute to this stress including, among others, thinking about an appropriate topic, conducting the actual field … [Read more...]
Dissertation Research Design – Need Help?
Difficulties of the Dissertation For thousands of students all over the world, a successful submission of their dissertation is not just a necessary condition of graduation, but it also plays a significant role in being informally accepted by one’s academic peers. Conducting an empirical study and writing the entire dissertation is a long and tedious process (at best). Sadly, thousands of students every semester fail in successfully defending their dissertations or theses. This wastes … [Read more...]
Three Common & Fatal Dissertation Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
You have just left your dissertation defense and, for the second straight time, your committee has rejected your dissertation. As you’re walking silently down the hall, contemplating at least another year of school, you think about all the successes you’ve had in your academic life, in undergrad & grad school, and in practically everything you’ve ever done throughout your academic life. For your doctorate degree, you’ve completed all your courses and passed all your required exams, but you … [Read more...]
Keys to Writing your Dissertation Quickly and Effectively
Keys to Writing your Dissertation Quickly and Effectively You have a few weeks left until your dissertation deadline and you have barely written anything. All your friends are way ahead of you and you are anxious and nervous especially since you know that your dissertation is necessary for graduation. You sit down to try to write but one hour later you’re staring at a blank page. You begin to worry and lose hope of ever graduating and continuing the career of your dreams. This is the … [Read more...]
Dissertation Research and Design Help
Why is Dissertation Research Design Help Important? If you are conducting a study as part of your dissertation, in addition to conceptualization help, you may also need help with your dissertation research design. Many students will need dissertation research design help at some time or another. This is nothing to be ashamed of; even the best researchers need dissertation research design help at some time or another. Dissertation research design help is readily available from a research or … [Read more...]
Overcoming Writer’s Block
How Writer’s Block Can Damage Your Dissertation Progress Writing the dissertation requires preparation of the dissertation content and the dissertation writer (yourself). When writing your dissertation, you must gather your dissertation ideas, organize your dissertation ideas, and transfer them to paper or the computer. While it sounds like as simple task, taking these steps in writing your dissertation is not as easy as it sounds. When writing the dissertation, there are many places to get … [Read more...]
SPSS HELP
What is SPSS and How Can SPSS Help You? Many students in graduate or doctoral programs that are research focused have been exposed to Statistical Packages for the Social Sciences (SPSS) at some point in their graduate school career. However, in depth exposure to SPSS as part of a doctoral program is not always the norm. If you are completing a dissertation or Master’s thesis now, or in the near or distant future, and plan to use SPSS to analyze your dissertation or other data, you could benefit … [Read more...]
Dissertation Tip of the Month
Get a little extra dissertation help with our tip of the month: While completing your dissertation successfully involves research and writing on your behalf, managing your dissertation chairperson is also a key component. Managing your dissertation chairperson successfully can be the difference between finishing the dissertation in one year and finishing the dissertation in three or more years. It may be difficult to know where to begin when managing your dissertation chairperson, as it can … [Read more...]
Dissertation Problems – The Perils of Ending “All But Dissertation”
All But Dissertation or A.B.D. is the period between finishing your doctoral course work and finally being handed your doctoral degree. All but dissertation status means you’ve completed all doctoral requirements except the dissertation. Many students have difficulty ending all but dissertation status. There are many reasons why students have difficulty ending all but dissertation status. All but dissertation status can last for years if you are not careful. Without ending all but dissertation … [Read more...]