Do as little as necessary! ... "Shorth is better than length" (Dr. Seuss) ... Your advisors want and need you to succeed ... A dissertation is not the capstone, magnum opus of a lifetime, it is a text produced by a beginning scholar ... Whether the Ph.D. is just a glint in your eye, or you are ABD (All But Dissertation) with a looming deadline for Ph.D. eligibility, or you are anywhere in between, this book will help you believe you can write a dissertation, show you in manageable steps how to do it, present attitudes, perspectives and practical suggestions to help you get through the tough spots, and help you to get it done sooner rather than later without being stressed out. You may even enjoy the process! (Okay, that might be a stretch for some, but you can at least not hate it.) Table of Contents: Forward: To Our Potential Readers: Is This Book for You? Introduction: Busting Counterproductive Idealism in Dissertation Thinking Chapter 1: It's Just a Dissertation Chapter 2: Do I Really Have to Read This Whole Book? Chapter 3: Making it Easier (Not Harder) on Yourself: Choose a Doable Area of Inquiry Chapter 4: Eenie, Meenie, Minie, Moe Part 1: Selecting a Near-Perfect Advisor Part 2: Assembling a High-Performing Committee Chapter 5: Happily Ever After Part 1: What You Can Do to Make Your Advisee-Advisor Relationship Work Part 2: What You Can Do to Make Your Advisor's Feedback Helpful to You Chapter 6: Magic 101: Transforming Daunting to Doable Part 1: What is a Prospectus and How Do I Write One? Part 2: Creating a Doable Dissertation Timeline (or Revising a Former One) Chapter 7: Think Small: The Nitty Gritty of Getting It Done Chapter 8: Stuck in the Muck: Prevent and/or Combat Unprogress Chapter 9: I Feel Like Quitting: Special Circumstances That Don't Have to Stop You Chapter 10: The Finish Line--Transforming Doable to Done: Formatting Your Dissertation and Preparing for Your Defense

It's Just a Dissertation!

DENISE K. COMER

Barbara Gina Garrett

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Writing in Transit

Fountainhead

Ideal for both first-year composition and interdisciplinary writing courses, Writing in Transit offers a two-tiered approach to multidisciplinary writing. Author Denise Comer presents strategies and instruction for navigating the purposes for writing through writing transfer, which encourages students to reflect on what they learn in one context about writing, and about themselves as learners and writers, and then apply, extend, reject, or otherwise modify this knowledge for other disciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary contexts. Writing in Transit teaches students how to build practical bridges between disciplines' discourse conventions by learning about the research and writing process. Textual features of Writing in Transit: Integrates a transfer-based approach to academic writing through multidisciplinary inquiry Approaches writing with a multimodal framework, addressing academic writing in print, visual, digital, and oral formats Provides a compelling range of highly interactive disciplinary-based assignments, with a sequenced spectrum of assignment options Provides engaging readings across disciplines centered on four broad themes with contemporary relevance: travel and adventure; news and information; disaster; and gaming Presents reflections about writing from people of all ages, offering glimpses of writing through an inclusive and international perspective Chapter 1: Writing Transfer Chapter 2: Research and Writing as a Process Chapter 3: Posing Meaningful Questions Chapter 4: Reading Chapter 5: Summary Chapter 6: Synthesis Chapter 7: Analysis Chapter 8: Framing Arguments Chapter 9: Constructing Chapter 10: Designing Arguments: Formats and Modalities Chapter 11: Choosing and Integrating Evidence: Quotes, Paraphrases, Visual Materials, and Data Chapter 12: Citing Resources

Writing in Transit with Readings

Ideal for both first-year composition and interdisciplinary writing courses, Writing in Transit offers a two-tiered approach to multidisciplinary writing. Author Denise Comer presents strategies and instruction for navigating the purposes for writing through writing transfer, which encourages students to reflect on what they learn in one context about writing, and about themselves as learners and writers, and then apply, extend, reject, or otherwise modify this knowledge for other disciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary contexts. Writing in Transit teaches students how to build practical bridges between disciplines’ discourse conventions by learning about the research and writing process. Textual features of Writing in Transit: Integrates a transfer-based approach to academic writing through multidisciplinary inquiry Approaches writing with a multimodal framework, addressing academic writing in print, visual, digital, and oral formats Provides a compelling range of highly interactive disciplinary-based assignments, with a sequenced spectrum of assignment options Provides engaging readings across disciplines centered on four broad themes with contemporary relevance: travel and adventure; news and information; disaster; and gaming Presents reflections about writing from people of all ages, offering glimpses of writing through an inclusive and international perspective Chapter 1: Writing Transfer Chapter 2: Research and Writing as a Process Chapter 3: Posing Meaningful Questions Chapter 4: Reading Chapter 5: Summary Chapter 6: Synthesis Chapter 7: Analysis Chapter 8: Framing Arguments Chapter 9: Constructing Chapter 10: Designing Arguments: Formats and Modalities Chapter 11: Choosing and Integrating Evidence: Quotes, Paraphrases, Visual Materials, and Data Chapter 12: Citing Resources

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It's Just a Dissertation!

Writing in Transit

Writing in Transit with Readings

Writing in Transit with Readings