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 4: Label your illustration, table or graph, taking care that the labeling is both clear and consistent.
- Design Criteria
- Cleveland, W. S. (1994). The elements of graphing data (Rev. ed.).Murray Hill, NJ: AT&T Bell Laboratories.
Step 5: Edit your visual display.
- Is the format successful at conveying that information you deem most important?
- Is there anything extraneous?
- The Best and Worst of Statistical Graphics
Step 6: Check the text associated with your visual display
- Ensure that the visual information has been referenced and that the emphasis created by the visual display is consistent with the emphasis in the text
Based on the original Dissertation Calculator from the University of Minnesota Libraries.