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• Title:Challenges in writing your dissertation : coping with the emotional, interpersonal, and spiritual struggles / Noelle Sterne.
  
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• Author/Creator:Sterne, Noelle, author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Ebooks Corporation.
  
• Published/Created:Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2015]
  ©2015
  

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  • Call Number: LB2369
    
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  • Status:No information available 

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Dissertations, Academic.
  
• Description:1 online resource.
  
• Reproduction note:Electronic reproduction. Perth, W.A. Available via World Wide Web.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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• ISBN:9781475815054 electronic bk.
  1475815050 electronic bk.
  9781475815030
  1475815034
  9781475815047
  1475815042
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: I. Sneaking Up on the Dissertation
  1. Decision: Your Dream, Your Life
  How Is the Degree Part of Your Life's Dream?
  What Will the Degree Do for You?
  Visualize Your Dream
  Affirmations for Strengthening Your Life Dream
  As They Say, Meditate, Don't Medicate
  2. Big Changes
  It's Not Just College Anymore
  How Ready Are You to Change Your Lifestyle?
  No Structure
  No Leisure
  It's Your Time
  Declare and Feel Your Readiness
  II. Really Doing It
  3. Priorities and Promises to Yourself
  Your Inner Mentor: Listening for Answers
  Rethink Your Priorities
  Find the Holes in Your Schedule
  Keep Your Promises to Yourself
  Your Later List
  Affirm Your Right Time and Timing
  4. Enroll Your Higher Self
  Hello, Light Being!
  Trust the Process
  Three Puzzling and Powerful Reinforcing Laws
  Law of Least Effort
  Law of Intention and Desire
  Law of Detachment
  Recognize and Accept Your Power
  Few Higher Self Affirmations
  5. Starting the Work: Positive Patient Persevering
  Listen for the Topic That's Right for You
  Topic Considerations
  Right Topic Considerations
  You're the Scholar in Shining Armor
  Muster Your Courage for the Proposal
  What's Your Problem?
  Courageous Affirmations
  You Don't Have to Walk a Straight (Out)Line
  Tricks to Tease and Ease Yourself Into It
  Writing Doesn't Have to Be Torture: Proper Style and Semipleasant Process
  Settle In: You Deserve It
  6. Sticking With It: Temptations and Tonics
  Dissertation Interruptus
  Death by Rationale
  Resisting the Extension Siren
  Getting Sick of It All
  Fear of Finishing
  Discipline Is a Choice
  Continuing the Work: Your Wayward Outline
  If You're Concerned About Your Brain
  Reasonable Breaks and Balance
  Working Questions
  Balanced Breaks
  Affirmations for Sticking with It
  III. Your Near, Dear, and Despairing Significant Others
  7. Orient the Important Others in Your Life
  Stranger in a Strange Graduate School Culture
  Family and Friends: Starting Off Wrong
  Starting Off Right
  Selfish?
  Saying No
  Sacrifices and Rewards: Short-Term, Mid-Term, Interminable-Term
  Educate Them
  Bribe Them
  8. Family: Choruses of Complaints, Songs of Support
  Partners: "I Didn't Bargain for This" or "I Never See You Anymore"
  Kids: "We Never See You Anymore"
  Involve Them: Share What You're Doing
  Involving Partners
  Involving Kids
  Special Dates With Partners and Kids
  Dates With Partners
  Dates With Kids
  Other Relatives: "We Never See You Anymore"
  Educate and Bribe, Again
  Sabotage, Unconscious or Not
  Holiday Strategies
  Toxic Volleys and Tough Questions
  Your Neutralizing Responses
  Hard Questions and Your Brilliant Answers
  Troubled Waters: Fights, Separation, Divorce
  See Them Whole
  Send Love Ahead
  See Them Supportive
  9. Friends: Are They For You or Against You?
  "Come On
  It's Only a Quick Lunch": Just Say "Not Now"
  Community Involvement and Volunteer Activities: Just Say "Later"
  Handle Jealousies and Putdowns
  Let Go of the Crazymakers
  Those Questions Again: "Aren't You Done Yet?"
  Assure Them You Still Love Them
  Know and Believe They Are For and With You
  10. Make Peace and Time With Your Employer and Work Colleagues
  Express Your Gratitude and Explain, Explain
  Point Out How Your Degree Benefits the Company
  Negotiate What Works for Both of You
  Superior Jealousies
  Recognize Toxicity
  Toxicity Antidotes
  Work Colleagues' Envy
  Affirm, Visualize, and Project Employment Peace
  IV. Good University Cops and Bad
  11. Your Dissertation Committee: The Best/Worst Friends You'll Ever Have
  Are Professors Really Human?
  Excruciating or Exceptional?
  Who Can You Work With and How Do You Know?
  Gather Plenty of Information
  Ask Questions About the Chair
  Listen Inside: Gut and Guidance
  Ask Questions of Yourself
  How Do You Feel?
  Design and See Your Perfect Committee
  12. Dancing With the Committee
  Whose Topic?
  Buddying Up or Keeping Too Distant
  Chums
  Strangers
  Ideal Balance
  Playing Humble Student and Keeping Your Self-Respect
  Swallow Your Pride
  Raise Your Head
  When You're Older Than Your Professors
  Infinite Loop of Revisions
  Appealing to Higher Authorities
  On the Ground
  In Your Head
  Your Higher Self and Theirs
  Psychologically Speaking
  Spiritually Speaking
  13. University Support: You've Got More Friends Than You Think
  Fellow Students as Mentors
  What Can You Learn From Learning Centers?
  You Can Speak to the Geeks in the Computer Lab
  Add to Your Team: Statisticians and Researchers
  Statisticians
  Researchers
  Librarians Love You, Secretaries Stand By You
  Librarians
  Secretaries
  Consider Coaches and Editors
  Coaches
  Editors
  Old Course Professors Don't Have to Fade Away
  Picture the Perfect University Friends You Need
  V. Graduation: It's Only a Walk Away
  14. Am I Really Almost Done?
  Rehearse Your Perfect Defense
  Yet Another Faculty Review
  Master the Red Tape
  How to Enjoy Your Own Graduation
  Avoid Post-Parting Depression (PPD)
  15. Waking to Your Dream
  Most Dangerous Time . . .
  Envision Your Future, Take the Steps
  Peek at Your Long-Neglected Later List
  Reenter Your Family's Atmosphere
  Plan Your Payoffs
  Positions
  Publications
  Celebrate Your Professional and Personal Growth With Gratitude.