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Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day: A Guide to Starting, Revising, and Finishing Your Doctoral Thesis

by Joan Bolker

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ISBN13: 9780805048919
ISBN10: 080504891x
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Expert writing advice from the editor of the Boston Globe best-seller, The Writer's Home Companion <BR>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.<BR>

About the Author

Editor of the best-selling The Writers Home Companion, Joan Bolker, Ed.D., has taught writing at Harvard, Wellesley, Brandeis, and Bard colleges. She is currently a psychotherapist whose speciality is working with struggling writers. She lives in Newton, Massachusetts.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780805048919
Subtitle:
A Guide to Starting, Revising, and Finishing Your Doctoral Thesis
Author:
Bolker, Joan
Publisher:
Holt McDougal
Location:
New York :
Subject:
General
Subject:
Composition & Creative Writing - Academic
Subject:
Report writing
Subject:
Language arts
Subject:
Academic writing
Subject:
Dissertations, academic
Subject:
General Study Aids
Copyright:
Edition Number:
1st ed.
Publication Date:
August 1998
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
256
Dimensions:
8.36x5.56x.58 in. .44 lbs.

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