Creating a Dissertation Topic
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This document provides advice for developing a research project. It recommends that you draw from your interests, skills, and experience to create a research topic rather than searching for one. It also advises considering how passionate, familiar, manageable, competent, significant, original, and oriented toward relevant audiences your project idea is. The document recommends starting early, doing research, developing a question and design, and budgeting time and resources. It emphasizes reading, writing every day, asking for help, and not giving up on your project.
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- 1. by Elizabeth Visedo, Ph.D.
- 2. Don’t search. Create !
- 3. feelings, thoughts, and motives your job courses you loved your master's thesis read A LOT skill experience
- 4. How passionate? How familiar with the literature / scholars? How manageable? ◦ time frame ◦ resources ◦ data How competent? How significant? How original? How oriented?
- 5. Employers ◦ Will it sell? Supervisors ◦ Will they be interested? Other scholars ◦ Friend or foe? Participants ◦ Availability ◦ Cost ◦ Demands
- 6. Recommendations Start early ◦ (i.e., NOW) Read Research Question/s Design/Framework Methods/Data sources Budget time/money ◦ YOUR time Have a safety net Write every day Ask for help/advice Transcribe Kleenex Don’t assume DON’T GIVE UP