How To Write And Defend A Doctoral Dissertation Successfully

Earn Your PhD! Write a Doctoral Dissertation that Can Be Successfully Defended

What you'll learn
Dodge common mistakes PhD students make when "pitching" a PhD dissertation topic to their committee.
Appreciate the role of the PhD dissertation chair in the overall review and defense process.
Set in motion a strategy to get timely feedback from the chair of your PhD dissertation committee
Appreciate what is required of a PhD dissertation study (hint: it is more than crunching data).
Design a PhD dissertation proposal that will be accepted by your PhD committee.
Write a PhD dissertation study that can be successfully defended.
Adopt an attitude of pride in your dissertation.
Embrace the strategy that accounts for the difference between people who complete their dissertations and those who never finish. (Hint: it is not what you think)
Avoid "fatal flaws" when designing and writing your PhD dissertation study.
Simplify the topic of your dissertation so it does not take 5 years to finish.
Define the meaning of a random sample.
Summarize the findings of existing studies that are relevant to your PhD dissertation topic.
Formulate a logical rationale for your PhD dissertation study: Why is your study important to do in the first place?.
Sidestep common pitfalls that obstruct completion of a PhD dissertation.
Include the content required for each chapter of the PhD dissertation.
Understand the rationale for why the review process is so terribly critical and judgmental.
Distinguish the task of doing a qualitative PhD dissertation study in contrast to a quantitative PhD dissertation.
Requirements
A fundamental understanding of social science research is essential.
Description
Let me ask you question: How would you like to know how faculty members view the process of writing and defending a PhD dissertation? I created How to Write a Dissertation to help PhD and doctoral students from social science disciplines navigate their way through the process.I have experienced the process at both ends - as a PhD student and as a faculty member.
Certain actions result in success. Others result in failure. I want every PhD student to know the difference!
Many PhD students give up because they did not have a rich understanding of what it takes to develop a dissertation project, pitch the idea to their committee, write their PhD dissertation and defend it successfully. It is really not such a mind wrenching experience once you have a clear understanding of what is expected during each step of the process.
In my experience, most PhD students have little or no information about the mysterious process of writing and defending a PhD dissertation successfully.
What are the fundamental components of a study that must be included in your dissertation proposal to be acceptable to your PhD committee?What are the most common mistakes PhD students make when formulating and writing their PhD dissertation? Why do so many PhD students never complete their dissertations?
The process of writing and defending a dissertation leads some PhD students to pull all of their hair out, get divorced or even lose all of their friends. It is a process full of roadblocks, setbacks and repeated requirements to "do it over" or worse, "start over." If you idea is to have some fun, do not choose to earn a PhD degree!
After having served on over 300 dissertation committees as chair, committee member or outside evaluator for a wide diversity of academic disciplines including public policy, public administration, business administration, psychology, sociology, education, journalism, history, library science, sports medicine and political science, I have a keen sense of what it takes to succeed and why students fail.
I also have a rich understanding about why PhD and doctoral students fail to finish their PhD or doctoral dissertations and graduate with their PhD degree in hand. Course work is typically not the road block for most students. Most get stuck in the mud at the dissertation stage.
This course offers you all of my inside tips (from the perspective of a faculty member) for what it really takes to succeed. If you follow my recommendations for what to avoid and what steps to take, you will be very pleased when you earn your PhD.
Will it be a lot of work? Yep! Will you get frustrated with the process? Everyone does. Will you find yourself angry at your committee members? You betcha.Can you succeed? Yes indeed!
Understanding the process you will confront (or are confronting now) will make the difference between writing a PhD dissertation that can be defended successfully and proposing a dissertation that your committee rejects so you never get to first base. My course offers a comprehensive perspective on what you can expect at each step of the process.
I am so proud of my course that enrollment comes with a 30 day full money back guarantee - no questions asked. As one of my students you get to ask me the questions you have about the process. I promise to answer them all.

Overview

Section 1: All About the Process of Getting a PhD Disseration Approved

Lecture 1 Introduction:How to Write a Dissertation and Defend it Successfully

Section 2: Secrets to Writing and Successfully Defending a PhD Dissertation

Lecture 2 Persistence

Lecture 3 Keep It Simple

Lecture 4 Embrace Criticisms. Make Revisions Willingly. Give the Process Time.

Section 3: Developing the PhD DIssertation Proposal

Lecture 5 Structure of a PhD Dissertation Proposal

Lecture 6 Why is Your PhD Dissertation Important to Do in the First Place?

Lecture 7 One Easy Way to Develop and Propose a PhD Dissertation Project

Section 4: Structure of the PhD Dissertation

Lecture 8 Structure of a PhD Dissertation

Lecture 9 Chapter One: Why is Your Study Worth Doing in the First Place?

Lecture 10 Chapter Two; The Literature Review

Lecture 11 Chapter Three: Theory and Hypotheses

Lecture 12 Chapter Four: Methods. Be Specific! Tell All! Hide Nothing!

Lecture 13 Chapter Five: Results - What Did Your Analysis Find?

Lecture 14 Chapter Six: Discussion and Conclusions

Section 5: What to Expect from your PhD Committee Chair

Lecture 15 Criteria for Selecting the Chair of Your PhD Dissertation Committee

Lecture 16 Qualifications for the Chair of your PhD Dissertation Committee

Lecture 17 What to Expect When You Submit Your Dissertation for Review by Your Chair

Lecture 18 Why is it so Difficult to Get Feedback on Your Dissertation?

Section 6: What to Expect from Members of Your PhD Dissertation Committee

Lecture 19 How Much Effort Do Most Committee Members Devote to Your PhD Dissertation?

Lecture 20 When Should the Defense of Your PhD Dissertation be Scheduled?

Section 7: What You Need to Know about Literature Reviews

Lecture 21 Overview of the Review of Literature: Include All Studies

Lecture 22 Systematic Analysis of Studies using Meta-Analysis can be a Dissertation

Section 8: Methods Issues

Lecture 23 Qualitative (case study) versus Quantitative PhD Dissertations

Lecture 24 Variation in the Dependent Variable: Do Not Restrict the Range

Lecture 25 Survey Research

Lecture 26 How to Select a Random Sample

Lecture 27 Measurement Error

Section 9: Section 9: Next Steps

Lecture 28 Still Struggling to Complete and Defend Your Dissertation?

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