Title: WRITING YOUR DISSERTATION IN FIFTEEN MINUTES A DAY: A Guide to Starting, Revising, and Finishing Your Doctoral Thesis
Author: Joan Bolker
Publisher: Owl Books
ISBN-13: 978-0805048919
Dissertation writers need strong, practical advice, as well as someone to assure them that their struggles aren't unique. Joan Bolker, midwife to more than one hundred dissertations and co-founder of the Harvard Writing Center, offers invaluable suggestions for the graduate-student writer. Using positive reinforcement, she reminds thesis writers that devoting themselves to a project that truly interests them can be a pleasurable adventure. Using field-tested strategies she assists the student through the entire thesis-writing process–from choosing a topic and an advisor to revising and defining the thesis, and navigating life and publication after the dissertation.
Title: PhDONE:A Professional Dissertation Editor’s Guide to Writing Your Doctoral Thesis and Earning Your PhD
Authors: Dr. Allen Roda & 2 more
Publisher: Skyhorse
ISBN-13: 978-1510778535
Breaking down the doctoral journey step-by-step, offering invaluable tips and resources along the way, PhDone is an essential tool for any doctoral candidate. Dr. Roda and Dr. Saunders demystify what a successful dissertation entails, detailing how to formulate your abstract, write your introduction, research your topic, and build a literature review. In PhDone, you’ll also learn how to choose and construct your methodology (qualitative, quantitative, or mixed methods), develop research questions, conduct research, and obtain IRB approval, properly analyze results and formulate conclusions, master the process of revising, editing, and formatting, and nail your defense and earn final approval.
Title: A DISSERTATION JOURNEY: A Practical and Comprehensive Guide to Planning, Writing, and Defending Your Dissertation
Authors: Laura Hyatt & Carol M. Roberts
Publisher: Corwin
ISBN-13: 978-1071891285
Completing a dissertation is a transformative and fulfilling life experience. It requires knowledge, tenacity, and preparation for the inevitable uncertainties that will arise along the way. It also necessitates strategies and techniques for dealing with the unanticipated events that many dissertation writers face, such as procrastination, writer’s block, and the uncertainty about conducting a literature review or approaching a methods section. This newly revised edition addresses those elements and includes indispensable information for organizing and writing a dissertation, research methods, expanded coverage of research ethics, and reflections from students who have effectively written and defended their dissertations.
Title: DOCTORAL WRITING SIMPLIFIED: A Step-by-Step Guide to the Dissration Process
Author: Dr. Hector Vasquez
Publisher: Independently published
ISBN-13: 979-8291230015
Doctoral Writing Simplified is your comprehensive, no-fluff guide to mastering each stage of the dissertation journey. Written by Dr. Hector Vasquez, a seasoned research mentor with a 100% success rate guiding doctoral students to completion, this book simplifies academic writing, research design, and the most common roadblocks that derail progress. Inside, you’ll discover how to identify a research gap and craft a strong problem statement, the difference between qualitative and quantitative research (and which to choose), tips for writing each chapter: Introduction, Literature Review, Methodology, and more, common pitfalls to avoid, and practical examples to support every step.
Title: THE CHICAGO GUIDE TO YOUR ACADEMIC CAREER: A Portable Mentor for Scholars from Graduate School through Tenure
Authors: John A. Goldsmith & two more
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
ISBN-13: 978-0226301518
With a perpetually tight job market in the traditional academic fields, the road to an academic career for many aspiring scholars will often be a rocky and frustrating one. Here, three distinguished scholars—with more than 75 years of combined experience—talk openly about what’s good and what’s not about academia, as both a workplace and a way of life, addressing tough issues such as departmental politics, dual-career marriages, and sexual harassment. Rounding out the discussion are short essays that offer the “inside track” on financing graduate education, publishing the first book, and leaving academia for the corporate world.
Title: DOING HONEST WORK IN COLLEGE: How to Prepare Citations, Avoid Plagiarism, and Achieve Real Academic Success
Author: Charles Lipson
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
ISBN-13: 978-0226430744
This volume stands on three principles: do the work you say you do, give others credit, and present your research fairly. These are straightforward concepts, but the abundance of questionable online sources and temptation of a quick copy-paste can cause confusion as to what’s considered citing and cheating. This guide starts out by defining plagiarism and other forms of academic dishonesty and then offers tools to avoid those pitfalls. This edition addresses the acceptable use of mobile devices on tests, the proper approach to sources such as podcasts or social media posts, and the limitations of citation management software.
Title: BEHIND THE ACADEMIC CURTAIN: How to Find Success and Happiness with a PhD
Author: Frank E. Furstenberg
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
ISBN-13: 978-0226066240
More people than ever are going to graduate school to seek a PhD these days. When they get there, they discover a bewildering environment: a rapid immersion in their discipline, a keen competition for resources, and uncertain options for their future, whether inside or outside of academia. Life with a PhD can begin to resemble an unsolvable maze. From finding the right job to earning tenure, from managing teaching loads to conducting research, from working on committees to easing into retirement, Frank F. Furstenberg illuminates all the challenges and opportunities an academic can expect to encounter.
Title: THE PHDICTIONARY: A Glossary of Things you Don’t Know (but Should) About Doctoral and Faculty Life
Author: Herb Childress
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
ISBN-13: 978-0226359281
Navigating academia can seem like a voyage through a foreign land: strange cultural rules dictate everyday interactions, new vocabulary awaits at every turn, and the feeling of being an outsider is unshakable. For students considering doctoral programs and doctoral students considering faculty life, The PhDictionary is a lighthearted companion that illuminates the often opaque customs of academic life. From ABD to white paper—and with buyout, FERPA, gray literature, and soft money in between—each entry contains a helpful definition and plenty of relevant advice. Childress is the perfect guide for anyone hoping to scale the ivory tower.
