Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Top Ten Pieces of Advice During Your Dissertation




1.    Your spouse will think you have abandoned him/her.   Help them understand its only   temporary abandonment, and that you do love them more than the dissertation, contrary to what it looks like, or the amount of time that is spent with them.
2.    No matter how right you think you are, your committee chair is more right.
3.     When defending never say, “I don’t know.”
4.     During your dissertation:  1. God    2. Committee Chair   3.  Spouse
5.     Plan you defense for the morning, use the rest of the day for minor fixes.
6.     Vomiting or fainting is not recommended during your defense.
7.     All suggestions made by your committee are good suggestions.
8.     If you use a statistician… understand every number, reason behind the number, where   the number came from, and why that number is important.
9.     Dissertations can be written on napkins.  (Dr. Dunn cited a source)
10.  If you fail to regard the above suggestions, you can purchase your degree from England!

I have taken some liberties in writing these thoughts; they are only a reflection of what I captured in today’s discussion.  These are not direct quotes from Dr. Dunn; although, he did inspire the message.

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