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Peg with Felix, her writing partner. |
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Demystifying Dissertation Writing is a practical, motivational, and humorous guide that presents a step-by-step process for completing a dissertation. Doctoral students, their advisers, faculty members facilitating writing seminars and members of writing groups will benefit from reading this book. |
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...the definitive text on how to start, sustain, and finish a dissertation. –Robert J. Nash
Written in a friendly, conversational style, this books makes explicit the too often implicit aspects of successfully researching and writing a dissertation. –Barbara E. Lovitts
I highly recommend this book to all directors of doctoral programs. –Susan Hasazi
Whether you’re inching towards a dissertation topic, choosing an adviser or already coping with the last stage of doctoral work, this book will be a life-saver. —JoAnn Moody
As someone who directs programs to help graduate students become effective teachers on top of productive researchers, I am delighted to be able to bring Single’s book and system to these students’ attention—and to recommend it as well to faculty directing dissertations. —Michele Marincovich
Its warm, yet substantive style, with plenty of pithy quotes and lots of specific examples gleaned from years of working with doctoral students makes the reading enjoyable and very practical. —Richard M. Reis
I highly recommend this book—it is packed with helpful tips and effective strategies designed to help doctoral students succeed. –Kimberly Huisman |
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Coaching for Academic Writers A little goes a long way! I have worked with graduate students and new faculty |
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members for over 15 years and have seen them transform from struggling to fluent writers. I did and so can you. Click here for more information about the coaching that I offer to academic writers. |
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Expert Advice Today’s column will be a real treat. I had the chance to interview two experts on getting your doctoral degree and succeeding as a faculty member. Paul Gray and David E. Drew published a lighthearted book that is chock-full of vital information for anyone in or planning on a career in academe. Their book is titled: What They Didn’t Teach You in Graduate School: 199 Helpful Hints for Success in Your Academic Career. Read more…
Group Work At first, sharing our writing graphs was a solemn affair. We would hold up our graphs and explain when we had been able to write that week and what we accomplished.... By the middle of the seminar, sharing our writing graphs often resulted in bouts of laughing initiated by self-effacing humor and mutual teasing. . Read more…
A Writing Routine in Practice At that presentation I talked about what a regular writing routine looks like in practice, the topic I am addressing in this piece. This is the third of a four-part series on developing a regular writing routine. Read more…
For this second column of my four-column series on developing a regular writing routine, we’ll look at some of the research on writing and expert performance. Read more…
My 1st Column: Don't Stare at a Blank Screen I’m writing this column because: (1) I used to stare at a blank screen, and (2) I’d like to save you a modicum of misery while you are writing your dissertation. Read more… |
