As most doctoral students know firsthand, keeping up with your dissertation, let alone completing it, is a major challenge. However, if a few principles are followed, no matter at which stage of the dissertation process you apply them, you can make it much easier on yourself. You can always seek dissertation help. The following are some principles that any doctoral student should take seriously when writing his or her dissertation and, in the end, following them will help you immensely in … [Read more...]
SPSS Help: A Brief Tutorial
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...]
7 Ways to Meet your PhD Deadlines
Do you find it really difficult to meet dissertation deadlines that you set? Do you find it hard to fulfill your personal deadlines especially when there is no great amount of extrinsic motivation coming from colleagues, dissertation supervisors and others? If so, this article discusses different ways that will greatly help you meet your deadlines and finally achieve those dissertation goals. In my experience, I found that there were 7 steps that I keep taking in order to stay motivated and on … [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...]
The Qualitative Research Method – A Brief Tutorial
The Qualitative Research Method – A Brief Tutorial Researchers often find that certain research topics cannot be reduced to mere numbers. As a result, they are left contemplating whether to use qualitative rather than quantitative research methods, or perhaps even a mixed study. Contrary to popular myth, qualitative methods can be equally, if not more challenging, than quantitative methods. On the other hand, researchers may also think that quantitative methods are more applicable to their … [Read more...]
Planning the Perfect Dissertation
Anything you work on that has a solid structure and foundation will minimize your time and effort while maximizing your results. On the other hand, any initiative lacking a sound structure will create many problems down the line. Therefore, when the time to start on your dissertation is approaching, you can make the entire dissertation process so much easier on yourself if you work carefully on laying a strong foundation for your study. Doing this will bring wonders for you throughout the … [Read more...]
The 5 Golden Tips for Your Dissertation
Dissertation writing is a long and tedious process but one that can be made easier with a few useful tips in mind. For over 20 years, Dissertation Genius - a professional dissertation consulting firm - has helped countless masters and doctoral students successfully submit and publish their dissertations. Thus, with this experience, I’ve gathered the five most useful tips that you should include your dissertation completion toolbox. Golden Dissertation Tip #1 The Student-Dissertation … [Read more...]
Qualified Dissertation Consultants – What They Do and Where to Find Them
It goes without saying that at some point during the thesis/dissertation process, you may be forced to seek help from an external party. This is true even for the most seasoned dissertation veterans and is nothing to be ashamed about. Usually, this help comes in the form of a fellow student, colleague, and your dissertation adviser. However, especially when implementing more technical studies, it may be very difficult to find quality help especially if your dissertation supervisor is not … [Read more...]
Managing Your Dissertation Chair Person
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...]
