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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What Is the University’s Responsibility to an ABD Struggling with Her Writing?
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5 Fast Tracks for a Running Start on Your Dissertation
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Where do you start on your dissertation? The word review can start you on the following five fast tracks.
Let’s get started:
1. Learn from your peers who are a bit farther along the road than you are—read and review carefully their dissertations.
Even if you’ve been writing papers since you were a wee tot, or at least [...]
Whose Dissertation Is It?
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An ABD student wrote to me about her advisor’s generous rewriting of the dissertation text. According to the student, the advisor doesn’t change the thought, only the language.
The ABD student recognizes that the advisor’s writing is superior to her own, Her question is if the advisor has rewritten a lot of the language of the [...]
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