Queen's Learning Commons
Queen's University- Understanding Expectations
- Identifying Your Research Questions
- Developing a Methodology or Methodological Framework
- Reviewing the literature in your field
- Establishing a dissertation committee
- Writing a dissertation proposal
- Creating a Work Plan
- Creating a Disseration Support Network
- Conducting Research
- Conducting a comprehensive literature review
- Outlining and drafting chapters
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Taking care of visual details
- Steps One - Three
- Steps Four - Six
- Reviewing, revising & submitting your text
- Creating defense draft & defending dissertation
- Writing the Abstract
- Finalizing Revisions
- Submitting Dissertation
- Getting Closure
Step 1: Determine what information you want to emphasize.
Step 2: Decide whether this information is best expressed in text, a table, a figure, graph or illustration.
- Informative Presentation of Tables, Graphs and Statistics
- Gelman, A., Pasarica, C., & Dodhia, R. 2002 Let's practice what we preach: turning tables into graphs. The American Statistician, 56, 121(10).
- Tufte, E. R. (2001). The visual display of quantitative information (2nd ed.). Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press.
Step 3: Select a visual format that best conveys the information.
- Graphical displays
- Schriger, D. L., & Cooper, R. J. (2001). Achieving graphical excellence: Suggestions and methods for creating high-quality visual displays for experimental data. Annals of Emergency Medicine, 37, 75-87.
Based on the original Dissertation Calculator from the University of Minnesota Libraries.