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
- Taking care of visual details
- Reviewing, revising & submitting your text
- Creating defense draft & defending dissertation
- Writing the Abstract
- Finalizing Revisions
- Submitting Dissertation
- Getting Closure
Stage 13: Seeking feedback, reviewing, redrafting, and revising your text
Although this stage will probably occur many times during the writing process, make sure to budget sufficient time to return to your manuscript for full scale revision before submitting it for initial approval.
Seeking feedback, reviewing, redrafting, and revising your text helps you to:
- See your text from a reader’s perspective
- Examine your overall organization and identify what is no longer relevant, what needs further development, etc.
- Bring together parts written at different times to create a coherent, connected whole
- Make your ideas accessible to others, which in turn will result in better reader comments about your content
- Plan and negotiate your progress in consultation with your advisor and committee members
Step 1: Approach revising as an opportunity
Step 2: Separate large-scale revision from small-scale editing and proofreading
Step 3: Tap into your dissertation support network
Step 4: Use a checklist of common errors when you do your final editing and proofreading
Step 5: Make sure to leave time for checking calculations, visual details, and literature citations
Based on the original Dissertation Calculator from the University of Minnesota Libraries.