Links+&amp;+Resources

These are a collection of resources for the student working on his/her dissertation...Please add to this list as you find points of interest -

2014/15 PHD Handbook for EHHS []

These tips on graduate advising generated some controversy: are they helpful and clear, or are they too strict?

A guide for the perplexed (by Jay Lemke)

Graduate Student [|Mental Makeover]

plagiarism -- students beware! [posting from Tomorrow's Professor]

Kent State's [|IRB process]for conducting research on human subjects

Gender differences in the road to the doc degree (posted Jan.2015)

= **The Role of Self-regulation in Doctoral Students’ Status of All But Dissertation (ABD by Martha J. M. Kelley and Jill D. Salisbury-Glennon [|article] ** =

This //Inside Higher Ed// article (May 13, 2011) offers a great writing exercise! Emory's marketing and public relations department asked Ph.D. recipients to boil down their dissertations to about 100 words that summarized their research and explained its impact, all in a way that “a friend who wasn’t in their field” could understand.

The urge to write! In "Academic Minute,"Dana Washington of Lock Haven University explains how the urge to write is rooted in the desire to create something more enduring than ourselves. Inside Higher Ed, May 23, 2011 Procrastination Equation - Scholar discusses what his new book suggests for those struggling to finish a dissertation or book //Inside Higher Ed//, May 6, 2011

and when you need a little more motivation... challenge a friend to stop procrastinating or eat livermush Guts to Publish (//Inside Higher Ed//, May 6, 2011)

White Male Advantage
Study of minority doctoral students in sociology finds notable relationship between demographics of advisers and career advancement of new Ph.D.s. //Inside Higher Ed//, March 1, 2011

Write Now! Managing, and Creating Writing Time //Inside Higher Ed//, October 20, 2010

Presenting at a national conference? [|here] are some helpful tips!

[|creating a research agenda] //Inside Higher Ed//, May 20, 2009

Aiming for Excellence in the Dissertation article prepared by Rick Reis and posted on Tomorrow's Professor e-newsletter, v34, issue 7 (May 22, 2009)

[|reasons for ABD inertia]

[|Betrayed by Adviser]Chronicle 2-24-06

[|Advising the new advisor]Chronicle 8-8-06

[|Dissertation and Death]Chronicle 6-9-06

[|ABD survival guide]- great monthly email newsletter (free)

[|Virtual dissertation support]

[|Support] for people trying to finish their dissertations

[|Scrivener]: Project management tool for writers