Writing Your Dissertation

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Strategies for choosing a good topic and getting your thesis written.

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Writing and Presenting your Thesis or Dissertation: This non-commercial "practical guide" has been created to assist in the crafting, implementing and defending of a graduate school thesis or dissertation. It includes a variety of strategies, suggestions and advice covering every stage of the thesis or dissertation project.
Words on Paper: By Brian Bialkowski "So you’re still in graduate school, you’ve finished everything but your dissertation, and you’re facing a pretty bleak academic future. You’ve been warned of graduate student attrition, shrinking job markets, tenuous adjunct work, a long and painful journey on the tenure track, and recurring bouts of insecurity and depression. Such dire predictions don’t matter because you’ve invested too much time, effort, and money in graduate school to walk away without a guilty conscience. With so much discouraging news, how are you supposed to complete your dissertation?"
Dissertation Advice: by Olin Shivers
Seven Steps to Successfully Launching a Research Project: A routine for safely and succesfully launching a research project, be it large or small. From an interview with George H. Heilmer, then President and CEO of Bellcore (Bell Communications Research)
How to Write a Master's Thesis in Computer Science: by William Shoaff, Florida Institute of Technology.
PhinisheD: PhinisheD is a discussion and support group for students who cannot seem to finish their dissertations or theses
Self-experimentation as a source of new ideas: Ten examples about sleep, mood, health, and weight: Seth Roberts, University of California - Berkeley. "Little is known about how to generate plausible new scientific ideas. So it is noteworthy that 12 years of self-experimentation led to the discovery of several surprising cause-effect relationships and suggested a new theory of weight control, an unusually high rate of new ideas."
Complete Your Dissertation: Resources for graduate students including a weekly updated audio message, a blog, articles and much more. Finish your dissertation in a year or less!
Real Dissertation Help: Alison Miller, Ph.D. provides dissertation coaching to help students, stop procrasinating, maintain motivation, and overcome the inevitable challenges of proposing and defending a dissertation. After years of being "All but dissertation" and almost getting kicked out of my graduate program she helped me finish and earn my doctoral degree.

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