Posted in Smart Tips, academic, accountability, advice, coaching, coherence, discourse, dissertation advisors, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, isolated, isolation, resilience, resources, setbacks, struggling, teaching writing, training, unclear writing, underprepared students, word usage, writing, writing, dissertation, tagged university's responsibility to dissertation writer, no feedback from advisor, unclear writing, struggling with writing, how to write dissertation on March 5, 2008 | No Comments »
An ABD’s dilemmas with her writing underscore for me the problems dissertation writers have when they’re isolated from campus and from an advisor during the dissertation process.
As a dissertation coach, I don’t fix people’s writing, but I listen, and if a client sends me some text, I see what the writing looks like.
This morning a [...]
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Posted in academic, advice, boundaries, choice, coaching, demands, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, family, reflection, regret, relationships, resources, self-care, setbacks, social intelligence, writing, tagged advice, demands, dissertation writing, parents, relationships on February 21, 2008 | No Comments »
Several ABD’s have told me over the last few days about issues with parents, spouses, boyfriends or girlfriends, and even friends.
The boyfriend of one of my clients has made it clear that he thinks it’s taking far too long for her to finish her dissertation. And the process drags on because she hesitates to work [...]
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Posted in academic, advice, boundaries, demands, dissertation advisors, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, family, relationships, social intelligence, time, tagged boundaries, dissertation, family, interpersonal relationships, writing on February 16, 2008 | No Comments »
Family and friends tend to give advice to ABD’s. It’s usually well-meaning. Sometimes it comes from personal experience and sometimes not.
Rarely does it help.
What I often hear from my dissertation clients is how difficult it is for them to deal with family members’ over-investment in the dissertation process.
Most ABD’s say that their family or others [...]
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