In one of the most powerful articles I have ever read about graduate education and academic life, scholar Susan Sidlauskas writes, “Dedicating yourself to a substantial, difficult project over a long ...

Two years ago I successfully defended my dissertation at Southern Methodist University’s graduate program in religious studies. It took me just under two years to propose, draft, revise, submit and ...

From proposal to defense, this online "Survival Skills for Graduate Students" workshop provides strategies for starting and completing your thesis or dissertation. We recommend that you log out of ...

As a professor for nearly 15 years, I have advised more doctoral students than I care to count. I’ve had my fair share of national award winners, those who gave up and vanished, and countless students ...

Note: The following guidelines are for use within the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing (FPB). They are congruent with School of Graduate studies guidelines. It is important to note that all PhD ...

When I imagine average graduate students writing massive, book-length dissertations, I see tired figures, slumped over desks with dark circles under their eyes and piles of books scattered beside them ...

A dissertation can be defined as the report of a process; it may also be seen as a long essay (Biggam, 2015). By comparison, a thesis is more sophisticated and adds to the knowledge in a field, or ...

What makes a good introduction for a dissertation? Graduate students practice critiquing one another’s thesis chapters, but they rarely read the introductions — usually because those are written to ...

The process of placing a dissertation order is notably streamlined, taking me a mere 5 minutes. What struck me as particularly advantageous was EssayService’s feature that enables you to select your ...

Note: The following guidelines are for use within the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing (FPB). They are congruent with School of Graduate studies guidelines. It is important to note that all PhD ...