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
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Reviewing, revising & submitting your text
- Steps One & Two
- Steps Three - Five
- Creating defense draft & defending dissertation
- Writing the Abstract
- Finalizing Revisions
- Submitting Dissertation
- Getting Closure
Step 1: Approach revising as an opportunity
"Re-see" your text and evaluate how well it meets the needs of your audience.
Step 2: Separate large-scale revision from small-scale editing and proofreading
Make sure to make large changes in organization and content first rather than spending hours smoothing out a sentence you’ll end up cutting.
Based on the original Dissertation Calculator from the University of Minnesota Libraries.