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		<title>Hard Choices: What finishing the dissertation requires of you and what it can give you</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 09:21:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have coached many people who write dissertations while juggling the demands of family life. It’s difficult to juggle the daily demands, but to give up a holiday with one’s family is a particularly hard choice to make. As the Memorial Day holiday approaches here in the U.S., I am thinking back to a Memorial Day weekend [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=successfulwritingtips.com&amp;blog=1220450&amp;post=2025&amp;subd=successfulwritingtips&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Conflicting Demands:  Family, Holidays, and Dissertations</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2008 04:18:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I always look forward to Memorial Day week-end.  As I enjoy the current Memorial Day holiday here in the U.S., I am thinking back to a Memorial Day week-end a few years ago when I had to choose my dissertation over the holiday week-end with my family. In my Washington, DC suburb, Memorial Day has always [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=successfulwritingtips.com&amp;blog=1220450&amp;post=95&amp;subd=successfulwritingtips&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>To Keep Your Writing Going, Put Your Energy Around What You Want</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 05:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you put your energy around what you want, that’s what you’ll get. One client told me that she had been ambivalent about all of the questions her dad had about her dissertation.  But she decided to make a positive out of the parental interest.  She saw that her dissertation could be a bridge in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=successfulwritingtips.com&amp;blog=1220450&amp;post=76&amp;subd=successfulwritingtips&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to Deal with Others Invested in Your Dissertation Process, Part III</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Feb 2008 14:35:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Whichard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writing a dissertation brings with it many hard choices.  Often those hard choices directly impact relationships.  One dissertation client told his parents that he can’t talk about his dissertation with them—not when it’s going well and not when he’s stuck—because he feels that it opens him to too much scrutiny. But he’s always ill at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=successfulwritingtips.com&amp;blog=1220450&amp;post=75&amp;subd=successfulwritingtips&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Grace and Grit of Dissertation Writing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jan 2008 05:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Whichard</dc:creator>
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