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 18: Getting Closure
Once you've met committee, departmental, and graduate school requirements regarding the dissertation, you're ALMOST done. Now it's time to determine the personal and professional considerations. These will allow you to really bring closure to the dissertation as a goal, deadline, and benchmark in your life.Celebrating your achievements, honouring those who have helped along the way, understanding moments of anger, regret, and miscommunication along the way will help you, the new PhD or EdD, to clearly articulate and freshly pursue new goals for research, publications, teaching, and community service. This stage is important because you can use it to mindfully enter into new professional areas, roles, and responsibilities.
Based on the original Dissertation Calculator from the University of Minnesota Libraries.