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• Title:Writing your dissertation in fifteen minutes a day : a guide to starting, revising, and finishing your doctoral thesis / Joan Bolker.
  
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• Author/Creator:Bolker, Joan.
  
• Published/Created:New York : H. Holt, 1998.
  

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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: LB2369 .B57 1998
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:c.1 On loan - Due on 05-17-2024
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Dissertations, Academic--Authorship.
  Report writing.
  Academic writing.
  
• Medical Subjects: Academic Dissertations as Topic.
  
• Edition:1st ed.
  
• Description:xix, 184 pages ; 21 cm
  
• Series:Holt paperback.
  
• Summary:Expert writing advice from the editor of the Boston Globe best-seller, The Writer's Home Companion. Dissertation writers need strong, practical advice, as well as someone to assure them that their struggles aren't unique. Joan Bolker, midwife to more than one hundred dissertations and co-founder of the Harvard Writing Center, offers invaluable suggestions for the graduate-student writer. Using positive reinforcement, she begins by reminding thesis writers that being able to devote themselves to a project that truly interests them can be a pleasurable adventure. She encourages them to pay close attention to their writing method in order to discover their individual work strategies that promote productivity; to stop feeling fearful that they may disappoint their advisors or family members; and to tailor their theses to their own writing style and personality needs. Using field-tested strategies she assists the student through the entire thesis-writing process, offering advice on choosing a topic and an advisor, on disciplining one's self to work at least fifteen minutes each day; setting short-term deadlines, on revising and defing the thesis, and on life and publication after the dissertation. Bolker makes writing the dissertation an enjoyable challenge. -- Provided by publisher.
  
• Notes:"An owl book."
  Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-172) and index.
  
• ISBN:080504891X (alk. paper)
  9780805048919 (alk. paper)
  
• Contents:Beginning
  Choosing an advisor and a committee
  Getting started writing
  From zero to first draft
  Getting to the midpoint : reviewing your process and your progress
  Interruptions from outside and inside
  You, your readers, and the dissertation support group
  Revising : the second draft and beyond
  The best dissertation is a done dissertation
  Life after the dissertation.