BY ALISON MILLER, PHD, OWNER OF THE DISSERTATION COACH & KATHRYN PETERSON, PHD, DISSERTATION COACH On December 28, we posted the first of four articles providing inspiration for completing your dissertation in 2019. The first article focused on setting intentions for...
BY ALISON MILLER, PHD, OWNER OF THE DISSERTATION COACH & KATHRYN PETERSON, PHD, DISSERTATION COACH It is 2019, a new year and a new opportunity to finish your dissertation once and for all (or at least get closer to the end). If you are like most students we meet, you...
BY KATHRYN PETERSON, PHD, DISSERTATION COACH THE QUANDARY: TO WRITE OR NOT TO WRITE? Every December, many of my clients have the same dilemma. Those who are teaching submit their final grades and then face a few weeks where they supposedly have more time to write....
BY ALISON MILLER, PHD, OWNER OF THE DISSERTATION COACH Writers are often encouraged to get past writer’s block by writing very rough drafts. In my book, Finish Your Dissertation Once and For All, I referred to these rough drafts the way Anne Lamott does in Bird by...
BY KATHRYN PETERSON, PHD, DISSERTATION COACH When you started graduate school, you wanted a nurturing mentor, right? You wanted someone with whom you could discuss your deepest intellectual passions and explore your most tenuous ideas someone you could email questions...
BY KATHRYN PETERSON, PHD, DISSERTATION COACH "I hadn't really realized how much of an impact current events were having on me and my ability to keep up with my dissertation." The words, from a beloved client, crystallized what many people have been feeling. It's a...
BY ALISON MILLER, PHD, OWNER OF THE DISSERTATION COACH It’s 11am, and you promised yourself you would transition to your dissertation two hours ago. You have checked your email half a dozen times, had another cup of coffee, scrolled through Facebook, and read a few...
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