SPSS Help: A Brief Tutorial What is SPSS? Do you need SPSS help? SPSS is an IBM creation and stands for the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences. It is an effective yet simple software for analyzing data inputs. This data can come from just about any source you can imagine: dissertation research, a customer resource management database, in-house marketing research, or even the server log data of a website. SPSS is also able to open numerous file formats, usually those related to … [Read more...]
Dealing with PhD Stress
The entire process of writing a PhD dissertation is a tedious one. From thinking of your research topic, coming up with a research question, and choosing a sample, to testing that sample, selecting a research method, doing a literature review, conducting the actual research, analyzing the results, and putting it all together, all this is not easy to do. The Importance of Stress Management During PhD Dissertation Work Compounding the stress of writing a PhD dissertation with the stress of daily … [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 valuable … [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...]
