Noelle Sterne

Challenges in Writing Your Dissertation

Coping with the Emotional, Interpersonal, and Spiritual Struggles

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Produktbeschreibung

In Challenges in Writing Your Dissertation: Coping With the Emotional, Interpersonal, and Spiritual Struggles, Noelle Sterne, Ph.D., demystifies the dissertation-writing process. She offers practical strategies so this often overwhelming process becomes less intimidating to doctoral candidates. Sterne addresses common fears and hurdles students face when writing and defending their dissertations and provides inspiration and encouragement during this long stressful time. This important resource is a must-read for doctoral candidates.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. September 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 524g
• ISBN-13: 9781475815030
• ISBN-10: 1475815034
• Artikelnr.: 42750948

Autorenporträt

Noelle Sterne, Ph.D., for thirty years has assisted struggling doctoral candidates to complete their dissertations in her roles as coach, editor, motivator, cheerleader, professional friend, handholder, ego soother, thought facilitator, stressed student solution-supplier, and "academic nag." To balance her scholarly pursuits, Dr. Sterne also regularly publishes writing craft articles, spiritual pieces, essays, and fiction in print and online periodicals and blog sites.

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Praise for Challenges in Writing Your Dissertation
Foreword: By Professor Irma M. Barron
Acknowledgments
Illustration: The Ideal Dissertation
Introduction: How I Became an Academic Nag
Why This BookWhat's HereMy Methods and TechniquesWhy Me?I Never Left
SchoolFrom Professor to TypistTo Coach and EditorDisclosure: My Writing
(Mostly Nonacademic)A Word About the Spiritual"Academic Nag"PART ONE:
SNEAKING UP ON THE DISSERTATION
Chapter 1. The Decision: Your Dream, Your Life
How Is the Degree Part of Your Life's Dream?What Will the Degree Do for
You?Visualize Your DreamAffirmations for Strengthening Your Life DreamAs
They Say, Meditate, Don't Medicate2. BIG Changes
It's Not Just College AnymoreHow Ready Are You to Change Your Lifestyle? No
StructureNo LeisureIt's Your TimeDeclare and Feel Your ReadinessPART TWO:
REALLY DOING IT
3. Priorities and Promises to Yourself
Your Inner Mentor: Listening for Answers Rethink Your Priorities Find the
Holes in Your ScheduleKeep Your Promises to Yourself Your Later ListAffirm
Your Right Time and Timing4. Enroll Your Higher Self
Hello, Light Being!Trust the Process Three Puzzling and Powerful
Reinforcing LawsThe Law of Least EffortThe Law of Intention and DesireThe
Law of DetachmentRecognize and Accept Your Power A Few Higher Self
Affirmations5. Starting the Work: Positive Patient Persevering
Listen for the Topic That's Right for You Topic ConsiderationsRight Topic
ConsiderationsYou're the Scholar in Shining Armor Muster Your Courage for
the ProposalWhat's Your Problem?Courageous AffirmationsYou Don't Have to
Walk a Straight (Out)LineTricks to Tease and Ease Yourself into ItWriting
Doesn't Have to Be Torture: Proper Style and Semipleasant Process Settle
In: You Deserve It 6. Sticking With It: Temptations and Tonics
Dissertation Interruptus Death by Rationale Resisting the Extension Siren
Getting Sick . . . of It AllFear of FinishingDiscipline Is a Choice
Continuing the Work: Your Wayward OutlineIf You're Concerned About Your
BrainReasonable Breaks and BalanceWorking QuestionsBalanced
BreaksAffirmations for Sticking With ItPART THREE: YOUR NEAR, DEAR, AND
DESPAIRING
SIGNIFICANT OTHERS
7. Orient the Important Others in Your Life
Stranger in a Strange Graduate School CultureFamily and Friends: Starting
Off WrongStarting Off RightSelfish?Saying NoSacrifices and Rewards:
Short-Term, Mid-Term, Interminable-TermEducate ThemBribe Them8. Family:
Choruses of Complaints, Songs of Support
Partners: "I Didn't Bargain for This" or "I Never See You Anymore"Kids: "We
Never See You Anymore"Involve Them: Share What You're Doing Involving
PartnersInvolving KidsSpecial Dates With Partners and Kids Dates With
PartnersDates With KidsOther Relatives: "We Never See You Anymore"Educate
and Bribe, AgainSabotage, Unconscious or NotHoliday Strategies Toxic
Volleys and Tough Questions Your Neutralizing ResponsesHard Questions and
Your Brilliant AnswersTroubled Waters: Fights, Separation, Divorce See Them
WholeSend Love AheadSee Them Supportive9. Friends: Are They for You or
Against You?
"Come On-It's Only a Quick Lunch": Just Say Not NowCommunity Involvement
and Volunteer Activities: Just Say LaterHandle Jealousies and PutdownsLet
Go of the CrazymakersThose Questions Again: "Aren't You Done Yet?"Assure
Them You Still Love ThemKnow and Believe They Are For and With You
10. Make Peace and Time With Your Employer and Work Colleagues
Express Your Gratitude and Explain, ExplainPoint Out How Your Degree
Benefits the Company Negotiate What Works for Both of YouSuperior
JealousiesRecognize Toxicity Toxicity AntidotesWork Colleagues' Envy
Affirm, Visualize, and Project Employment Peace PART FOUR: GOOD UNIVERSITY
COPS AND BAD
11. Your Dissertation Committee: The Best/Worst Friends You'll Ever Have
Are Professors Really Human?Excruciating or Exceptional?Who Can You Work
With and How Do You Know?Gather Plenty of InformationAsk Questions About
the ChairListen Inside: Gut and Guidance Ask Questions of YourselfHow Do
You Feel?Design and See Your Perfect Committee Dancing With the Committee
Whose Topic?Buddying Up or Keeping Too DistantChumsStrangers The Ideal
BalancePlaying Humble Student and Keeping Your Self-RespectSwallow Your
PrideRaise Your HeadWhen You're Older Than Your ProfessorsThe Infinite Loop
of Revisions Appealing to Higher Authorities On the GroundIn Your HeadYour
Higher Self and TheirsPsychologically SpeakingSpiritually Speaking13.
University Support: You've Got More Friends Than You Think
Fellow Students as Mentors What Can You Learn From Learning Centers? You
Can Speak to the Geeks in the Computer Lab Add to Your Team: Statisticians
and Researchers StatisticiansResearchersLibrarians Love You, Secretaries
Stand By YouLibrariansSecretariesConsider Coaches and
EditorsCoachesEditorsOld Course Professors Don't Have to Fade AwayPicture
the Perfect University Friends You Need PART FIVE: GRADUATION: IT'S ONLY A
WALK AWAY
14. Am I Really Almost Done?
Rehearse Your Perfect Defense Yet Another Faculty ReviewMaster the Red
TapeHow to Enjoy Your Own Graduation Avoid Post-Parting Depression (PPD)
Waking to Your Dream The Most Dangerous Time . . . Envision Your Future,
Take the StepsPeek at Your Long-Neglected Later List Reenter Your Family's
Atmosphere Plan Your PayoffsPositionsPublicationsCelebrate Your
Professional and Personal Growth With GratitudeConclusion: Why I'm Still an
Academic Nag
References
Selected Resources
A Short Glossary of Important Acronyms
About the Author