Completing Your Doctoral Dissertation/Master's Thesis in Two Semesters or Less PDF

Rating: (10 reviews) Author: Evelyn Hunt Ogden ISBN : 9781566760355 New from $9.00 Format: PDF

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A long-term bestseller, this book is a pragmatic step-by-step guide to completing you dissertation or thesis during two semesters, in fifty workdays or less. It covers advisor and topic selection, proposal development, data collection and organization, available assistance, writing, and defense. The author demystifies the process and provides you with essential guidance through the rites of passage that are an integral part of completing your degree.

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• Paperback: 158 pages
• Publisher: R&L Education; 2nd edition (July 28, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1566760356
• ISBN-13: 978-1566760355
• Product Dimensions: 0.5 x 5.8 x 8.8 inches
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Completing Your Doctoral Dissertation/Master's Thesis in Two Semesters or Less PDF

In this book, Dr. Evelyn Hunt Ogden outlines a practical, yet optimistic, approach for finishing a Doctoral dissertation in two semesters or less. She is also quick to point out that the book is essentially suited to a Master's thesis. I will point out that in programs that have de-emphasized thesis writing, instead relying on a written 'Graduate Research Project' (GRP, which also goes by other names), generally of smaller scope than a thesis, this is also very applicable.

The focus of the book is making the dissertation or thesis as painless as possible. Dr. Ogden has advised scores of Ph.D. candidates on their dissertations, and her tips are on the money. She focuses on how to strategically and tactically plan your dissertation by focusing on what suitable topics are, and particularly emphasizes how to pick your advisor and committee (if you have a choice), how to focus your topic to manageable size, how to design your study and methodology, how to minimize required changes along the way, time line construction, and preparing for the oral defense. After reading the book, I came away with a new approach to this subject for myself, and I truly believe that this book is the most useful I have read on the subject, certainly more so than most formal research methods books. Having said that, I do believe her time line is quite tight. Although it sounds plausible to complete the dissertation in two semesters, I truly believe that in most cases it may require more, particularly in some scientific disciplines where the basic research can add substantially to that time line. Nonetheless, even if it does take you longer, the techniques and tips in this book will save you countless hours if you heed their wisdom.