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 8: Creating a dissertation support network
Working with a group of peers in a dissertation writing group is important for two reasons:- It creates a community of emerging professionals who can share their own strengths and help stretch one another's skills
- This exchange prods you as a writer to more carefully develop ideas, prose, and feedback and revision skills. In a writing group composed of peers you trust and work with well, you will create stronger work and, thus, be able to make more effective use of your advisor's time
Based on the original Dissertation Calculator from the University of Minnesota Libraries.