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Jonathan Warren shares the last in a three part series. Explore Part 1 here and Part 2 here.Â
As I wrap up this series, two more things I learned from my dissertation come to mind:
4) You need to strike the proper balance between research and writing.
One of my besetting issues during the entirety of my Ph.D. program was the sense that I always needed to know more about the topic than I did before I could write about it. My tendency was to consume more and more information, compile more and more detailed notes, and then try to spit it all out on the page. I did this every semester during my coursework, and I often had to take incompletes because of it. [Read more…] about Five Things I’ve Learned from Writing a Dissertation, Part 3