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		<title>Share Some Kind Words with Your Dissertating Siblings and Friends: Support Is Critical</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Georgetown University Professor Deborah Tannen writes about the supportive relationship she has with her two sisters. In the Sept. 6, 2009 Washington Post, Tannen says that she sends them her manuscripts for their comments and once a book is published, she waits eagerly, yet nervously, for their response. After reading a draft and sending Deborah [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=successfulwritingtips.com&#038;blog=1220450&#038;post=362&#038;subd=successfulwritingtips&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Road Blocks to Finishing Your Dissertation: Slacking off, Celebrating too Soon, Determined to be Perfect</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 01:55:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the end of your dissertation is in sight, what will you do? If you’re struggling just to get started on your dissertation, the question &#8220;What will you do when the end is in sight” must sound rhetorical at best and silly at worst. Nevertheless, I’ve learned from my clients that minefields await writers when [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=successfulwritingtips.com&#038;blog=1220450&#038;post=284&#038;subd=successfulwritingtips&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Dec 2007 07:17:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[1. What is the key to perseverance?  Getting started is the key.  The first step is the hardest.  Sit down and then stay there. 2. What is sending you right over the edge?   You are&#8211; Catastrophizing only raises your blood pressure.  Who needs the drama?  Remember: Catastrophizing is just another form of procrastination.  3. Who [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=successfulwritingtips.com&#038;blog=1220450&#038;post=53&#038;subd=successfulwritingtips&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>“Nothing motivates like a hard deadline. . .”</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2007 23:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maybe you have received ads, as I have, proclaiming that “this is your final courtesy reminder about tomorrow night’s teleconference.”  Final reminder?  Wow!  I take note of that, even if I hadn’t thought about going to the teleconference at all. One client who had set this Saturday night before her family’s Christmas as a deadline [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=successfulwritingtips.com&#038;blog=1220450&#038;post=46&#038;subd=successfulwritingtips&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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