Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day: A Guide to Starting, Revising, and Finishing Your...

Expert writing advice from the editor of the Boston Globe best-seller, The Writer's Home Companion

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 begins by reminding thesis writers that being able to devote themselves to a project that truly interests them can be a pleasurable adventure. She encourages them to pay close attention to their writing method in order to discover their individual work strategies that promote productivity; to stop feeling fearful that they may disappoint their advisors or family members; and to tailor their theses to their own writing style and personality needs. Using field-tested strategies she assists the student through the entire thesis-writing process, offering advice on choosing a topic and an advisor, on disciplining one's self to work at least fifteen minutes each day; setting short-term deadlines, on revising and defing the thesis, and on life and publication after the dissertation. Bolker makes writing the dissertation an enjoyable challenge.
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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-29-2009; Easy read but excellent advice!; As a struggling EdD candidate, this book was an enjoyable read with good, practical advice. Her experience helping students shows through. It may not have technical advice, like how to conduct your surveys etc, but things like keeping...; read full review | report as inappropriate

4/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-19-2009; good; It was a gift. I don't know the condition but I was told by the recipient that it got there quickly.; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jun-07-2009; best dissertation book out there; This is the best dissertation book out there, helpful for writing generally, and one I would get at the *beginning* of a doctoral program. Helps you think ahead with many helpful tips about working with profs, etc.; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: May-09-2009; It works; This book helped me get through a MA thesis and is now helping me get through a PhD dissertation. I've recommended this book dozens of times; it is also the book I get recommended to me most often. (Typically the conversation is...; read full review | report as inappropriate

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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-29-2009; Easy read but excellent advice!; As a struggling EdD candidate, this book was an enjoyable read with good, practical advice. Her experience helping students shows through. It may not have technical advice, like how to conduct your surveys etc, but things like keeping...; read full review | report as inappropriate

3/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Feb-06-2008; writing your dissertation in fifteen minutes a day; Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day: A Guide to Starting, Revising, and Finishing Your Doctoral Thesis; read full review | report as inappropriate

1/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Mar-07-2008; Would NOT recommend.; If you are interested in a personal novel this may be the choice for you. I found the content disorganized, the content not as useful as A Dissertation Journey/Roberts. My agenda was looking for help in organizing my ideas, my sources,...; read full review | report as inappropriate