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The Dissertation Can No Longer Be Defended - Graduate Students - The Chronicle of Highe... - 1 views

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    why you should do an article format dissertation! 
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Graduate School Is a Means to a Job - Manage Your Career - The Chronicle of Higher Educ... - 0 views

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  • If offered the option of writing a master's thesis, seriously consider taking it, as it can form the core of your first refereed journal article. Plan out a publishing trajectory to ensure that you have at least one sole-authored refereed journal article before you defend your dissertation.
  • Attend every job talk in your department and affiliated departments religiously. It matters not if those talks are in your field or subfield.
  • Take every opportunity available to present your work publicly.
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  • Make your mistakes in graduate school, where the stakes are low, so that you are a master of the podium when the stakes are high.
  • apply annually to present a paper at your national conference
  • Cultivate a letter writer who is not from your Ph.D.-granting institution.
  • Write your dissertation with an eye to the publications that it will become
  • You must publish enough to get a job without prematurely exhausting your supply of material you will need for tenure.
  • Remember that the best dissertation is a finished dissertation.
  • Do what it takes to satisfy your committee and finish.
  • Be the sole instructor of at least one course
  • Go on the market while A.B.D. because you want to make your worst mistakes while you still have a year of financial support from your home department. Most people who prevail on the market need at least two years to do so.
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The No-Fail Secret to Writing a Dissertation | Vitae - 0 views

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    apologies for the swearing, but this is a great article on habits to productive writing.
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My Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Dissertation - Do Your Job Better - The Chroni... - 0 views

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    habits and strategies for writing
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Good Deeds That Are Most Punished, Part 3: Research - Manage Your Career - The Chronicl... - 0 views

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    good advice on organizing your time around what's important.
Rick West

On Writing in Grad School - The Conversation - Blogs - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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  • Here is part of the last entry: “Grad school demands that we unlearn many things, but I never imagined that writing would be one of them. As I write this here, at the end of these thousands of words, I still feel like I just started writing. My hand cramps. I worry. I don’t flow with copious rigor.”
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