Procrastinating on finishing your dissertation’s conclusion? If so, you have company. Writing the conclusion can be a time when many people clutch.
Needing Feedback?
One reason why many dissertation writers start to slow down when they’re at this point is that they aren’t getting feedback from their advisor or mentor. If you don’t have a sense that [...]
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6 Tips to Help You Stop Procrastinating and Finish Your Dissertation’s Conclusion
Posted in Smart Tips, academic, advisor, coaching, criticism, dissertation advisors, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, following through, getting started, perseverance, procrastination, re-group, re-start, regrouping, restarting, start writing, writing, writing, dissertation, tagged procrastinating on writing conclusion, writing conclusion to dissertation, diplomacy in dealing with your committee on September 7, 2008 | No Comments »
Hard Deadlines: Are You Being Squeezed Out of Your Doctoral Program?
Posted in Smart Tips, academic, advisor, coaching, deadline, dissertation advisors, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, fears, strategies, tagged finishing the dissertation, hard deadlines, working with advisor on June 8, 2008 | No Comments »
Is your university enforcing hard deadlines for finishing dissertations? Are you getting any signals from your university about what might be ahead for you? Has your advisor become more critical of your work?
Every day I talk with dissertation clients who are trying hard to finish their doctoral degree. This week several people sounded a similarly unsettling [...]
One Way to Get a Response from Your Dissertation Advisor
Posted in Smart Tips, advisor, alliances, coaching, courage, dissertation advisors, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, relationships, writing, tagged dissertation advisor, feedback, response, strategy on May 22, 2008 | No Comments »
What do you want from your advisor that will make your life as a writer easier?
Great feedback, some feedback, or maybe just feedback once in a while? How about an email saying hello?
If you’re not getting feedback or not even getting answers to your straight-forward questions, here’s one idea. I’m not advising that you take [...]
A Gratitude Attitude May Help You Move toward Your Goal
Posted in Happier, academic, brave, coaching, courage, creativity, dissertation advisors, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, getting started, goals, hope, perseverance, procrastination, top strengths, using your strengths, writing, dissertation, tagged achieving, dissertation, goals, gratitude, gratitude intervention, happy, increased progress, writing on March 28, 2008 | No Comments »
How would you like to make 20 percent more progress on your dissertation than you’re now making?
Bob Emmons, professor at the University of California, Davis, has found that having a grateful attitude can make that possible.
The author of Thanks! How the New Science of Gratitude Can Make You Happier, Prof. Emmons has made amazing research findings [...]
What Is the University’s Responsibility to an ABD Struggling with Her Writing?
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 [...]
4 Reasons to Keep Writing Even if You’re Not Sure You’re Going in the Right Direction
Posted in Smart Tips, academic, demands, discipline, dissertation advisors, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, distractions, following through, goals, hope, momentum, re-start, reasons for not writing, restart writing, showing up, strategies, tagged dissertation writing, establishing hope, finishing the dissertation, fixing the writing habit, momentemum, setting goals on February 4, 2008 | No Comments »
Dissertation writers occasionally come to an impasse, unsure of which way to go next. You’ve probably been in this position. You want to move forward, but it may seem prudent to wait—wait to see what your committee chair or mentor says, wait until you have a lot more time to read or go through your [...]
Are There Ever Good Reasons Not to Write Your Dissertation?
Posted in Smart Tips, academic, coaching, dissertation advisors, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, exercise, getting started, motivation, procrastination, re-start, tagged dissertation writing, lack of motivation, procrastination, unsure of direction on February 2, 2008 | No Comments »
There are lots of reasons not to write, or so I hear:
1. Midwinter blahs. If you live in an area where January and February are gray and cold, it can be hard to push ahead on your writing.
2. Seasonal fatigue—oh, wait, that was the roadblock in December.
No longer an excuse!
3. Low motivation. When was the [...]
Whose Dissertation Is It?
Posted in Smart Tips, academic, advisor, coaching, discourse, dissertation advisors, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, resources, writing, writing models, tagged accepting help, commenting on writing, procrastination, revisions, rewriting, talk to your advisor on November 29, 2008 | No Comments »
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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