How to Finish and Defend Your Dissertation : Strategies to Complete the Professional Practice Doctorate.

✍ Scribed by Grant, Cynthia

• Publisher: R & L Education
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 248
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A first of its kind, this book provides you everything you need to know about successfully passing the dissertation defense such as: preparing and finishing the manuscript, using cloud-based communities, preparing presentations, using effective communication strategies, managing stress, motivating yourself, revising and editing the manuscript, publishing and presenting the final dissertation and more.

✦ Table of Contents

FOREWORD
PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION
Ch01. THE REALITIES OF WHAT IT TAKES TO FINISH YOUR DISSERTATION
Ch02. YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH THE COMMITTEE AND YOUR CHAIRPERSON
Ch03. REFINING YOUR DISSERTATION PROPOSAL FOR THE FINAL MANUSCRIPT
Ch04. PRESENTING YOUR RESULTS AND DISCUSSION IN THE FINAL MANUSCRIPT
Ch05. USING CLOUD-BASED VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES IN THE DISSERTATION PROCESS
Ch06. PREPARING FOR THE FINAL DEFENSE PRESENTATION
Ch07. DEVELOPING EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION AND MOTIVATION SKILLS
Ch08. THE DISSERTATION DEFENSE: THE DAY HAS ARRIVED. Ch09. PASSING THE DEFENSE AND EDITING THE FINAL DISSERTATION MANUSCRIPTCh10. HOW TO PUBLISH AND PRESENT YOUR DISSERTATION
EPILOGUE. ADVICE TO CANDIDATES FROM THOSE WHO MADE IT
APPENDIX A. PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION WEBSITES
APPENDIX B. PREPARING DOCUMENTS AND USING PRESENTATION AIDS
APPENDIX C. DOCTORAL CANDIDATE PERSONALITY STYLE INVENTORY
APPENDIX D. DOCTORAL CANDIDATE TIME MANAGEMENT ASSESSMENT
APPENDIX E. DOCTORAL STRESS AND COMPOSURE SURVEY
APPENDIX F. DISSERTATION SUCCESS SELF-ASSESSMENT
NAME INDEX
SUBJECT INDEX.

✦ Subjects

Dissertations, Academic -- Authorship -- Handbooks manuals, etc;Academic writing -- Handbooks, manuals, etc;Dissertations, Academic -- Authorship;Academic writing