New graduate students are often unaware of the many hazards and pitfalls that occur during the dissertation process: intensive schedules, dwindling motivation, difficult or unavailable mentors, and research and publication complications. Lacking the experience and wherewithal to successfully overcome or avoid these impetuses for derailment, many students are unable to complete the dissertation process, losing sight somewhere in between reading, studying, collecting data, and writing a thesis.
Based on the authors’ inside knowledge and extensive experience, Dissertation Solutions provides graduate students with the basic tools and skills to help them navigate the whole process with minimal damage, making the whole process of planning, researching, and writing more manageable. This thorough, but concise guide will help even the most naïve graduate student become experts in navigating and surviving their graduate experiences. Outlining the dissertation process, explaining the key players involved, and offering advice to help complete any research project, this book will also provide overwhelmed, intimidated, or just reluctant students with the motivation required to complete this arduous project.
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Dissertation Solutions gives the broad strokes and fine points of how the dissertation actually works, on stage and behind the scenes, by using student accounts of dissertation successes, tragedies, and sagas. For those students who are stuck, fear getting delayed, or need to obsess about the dissertation constructively while anticipating it or procrastinating on it, this is a must read. Dissertation Solutions is a very practical guide that will tell students some of what you already know and some of what you don’t want to hear, it will help you hear it, and help you navigate the real-world messiness of the dissertation process. There’s something for every student. Give it a read for its ability to motivate you, provide useful information, and convey wisdom.
