Completing Your Thesis or Dissertation: Professors Share Their Techniques & Strategies

by Fred Pyrczak

Book Overview

- Seventy professors share their tips, techniques, and strategies for overcoming roadblocks to the completion of a thesis or dissertation.

- Many of the professors share their personal experiences in completing their dissertations. With hindsight, they offer advice based on these experiences. The personal nature of these essays makes fascinating reading.

- The professors' contributions cover a wide range of topics including

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1884585213
• ISBN13: 9781884585210
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 105 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 8.5" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

Required reading for all students with the daunting task

In Completing Your Thesis Or Dissertation, Fred Pyrczak has assembled advice and anecdotal examples from seventy-one university professors for students who are frustrated with, or fail to complete, their dissertations. The wealth of techniques and strategies offered will prove invaluable for anyone struggling to complete a thesis or dissertation regardless of subject matter or category of topic. The contributors cover all aspects of the thesis or dissertation process including defending the writing, getting help from others, goals and timelines, outside pressures, overcoming self-doubt and anxiety, the prospectus/proposalm reviewing the literature, rewarding oneself, selecting a committee and chair, selecting a topic, writing, work habits, working with the committe and chair, dealing with writer's block, and more. Completing Your Thesis Or Dissertation should be required reading for all students who are faced with the often daunting task of writing a thesis or dissertation.