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Dissertation Resources

 

A few links:

Writing and Presenting Your Thesis or Dissertation

Writing Theses and Dissertations

Advice on Research and Writing

Dissertation Tips

Practical Advice for Writing Your Dissertation

 

A few Books: 

 

Bolker, Joan. Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day: A Guide to Starting, Revising, and Finishing Your Doctoral Thesis. 1998.

Booth, Wayne C., Gregory G. Colomb, and Joseph M. Williams. The Craft of Research.

Gillis, Christina M. Scholarly Arguments: Strategies for Writing Persuasive Proposals in the Humanities. 1993.

Locke, Lawrence F., Waneen Wyrick Spirdoso, and Stephen J. Silverman. Proposals That Work: A Guide for Planning Dissertations and Grant Proposals. 4th ed., 2000.

Meloy, Judith M. Writing the Qualitative Dissertation: Understanding by Doing. 1994.

Peters, Robert L. Getting What You Came For: the Smart Student's Guide to Earning a Master's or Ph.D. Rev. ed., 1997.

Rudestam, Kjell Erik, and Rae R. Newton. Surviving Your Dissertation: A Comprehensive Guide to Content and Process. 1992.

Simon, Marilyn K., and J. Bruce Francis. The Dissertation Cookbook: From Soup to Nuts, A Practical Guide to Start and Complete Your Dissertation. 2nd ed., 1998.

Sternberg, David. How to Complete and Survive a Doctoral Dissertation. 1981.

Zerubavel, Eviatar. The Clockwork Muse: A Practical Guide to Writing Theses, Dissertations, and Books (Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1999).