BY ALISON MILLER, OWNER OF THE DISSERTATION COACH
As you work toward earning a graduate degree there is an internal voice that is near impossible to avoid, the voice of the “inner critic.” This voice may criticize your intelligence, writing, analytical skills, or…
BY ALISON MILLER, PHD, & KATHRYN PETERSON, PHD, DISSERTATION COACHES
Finishing a dissertation requires that you complete thousands of tasks. While you only need to complete one task at a time, it is easy to get overwhelmed by the enormity of all the work that lies…
BY ALISON MILLER, PHD, OWNER OF THE DISSERTATION COACH
Many years ago, I received what seemed like unnecessarily harsh feedback on my first first-authored submission to an academic journal. The editor and reviewers expressed issues with every section of the article. I…
BY MICHAL LEMBERGER, PHD, DISSERTATION COACH Spring is here in the northern hemisphere. The sky has cleared. Bare tree branches are beginning to send out green shoots. It’s not only nature that is sprouting anew. At this time of year, our minds also turn to thoughts...
BY ALISON MILLER, PHD, & KATHRYN PETERSON, PHD, DISSERTATION COACHES Take a scan of your work environment right now. What do you see? Is your desk cluttered, messy, amok with papers, books, and files? Is your space an environment where you can focus easily and...
BY ALISON MILLER, PHD, OWNER OF THE DISSERTATION COACH & KATHRYN PETERSON, PHD, DISSERTATION COACH If you overheard our coaches talking to our clients, you might wonder why we keep mentioning the word tomatoes. Yes, tomatoes are a frequent part of our coaching...
BY MICHAL LEMBERGER, PHD, DISSERTATION COACH “The best dissertation is a finished dissertation.” “The perfect is the enemy of the good.” Spend enough time in graduate school, and you’ll hear both of these truisms at least once. Probably many more times once you start...
BY ALISON MILLER, PHD, OWNER OF THE DISSERTATION COACH Perfectionism is a very common obstacle to productivity among graduate students. Perfectionism is generally defined as maintaining standards that are unrealistically high and impossible to attain. Some students...
BY KATHRYN PETERSON, PHD, DISSERTATION COACH During my sessions with clients, I often notice that they sound stressed, anxious and tired. In some cases, they are worn out to exhaustion. I've come to expect this now from dissertation and thesis writers, and with good...
BY ALISON MILLER, PHD, OWNER OF THE DISSERTATION COACH There seems to be a universal confusion that bedevils students’ ability to make real writing progress on a daily basis. This confusion is understanding the difference between the process of writing a dissertation...
