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Title: How to Complete and Survive a Doctoral Dissertation by David Sternberg ISBN: 0-312-39606-6 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 June, 1981 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.71 (14 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Does anyone else feel this way!
Comment: Sternberg's book is, at times, dated, however he does tap into the hard-to-explain feelings of anxiety facing the ABD. This text has been a sort of therapy for me as I complete my course work and ready myself for the lonely adventure of data collecting, analyzing and writing. Chapter 7 provides meaningful guidelines for organizing your own dissertation-support group.
Rating: 5
Summary: If you're approaching your diss READ THIS BOOK!
Comment: After finishing my comps I wanted a book that would address the last hurdle toward my PhD. I spent a couple of hours in the library thumbing through "how-to-write-a-dissertation" books and finding nothing more than uninteresting collisions of the MLA Manual of Style and Williams' Style (an excellent book BTW). Then I found How to Complete and Survive a Dissertation -- the only reason I pulled it off the shelf was the word "survive" in the title. I believe this book will help me not only survive the diss but also complete it in a timely fashion - Thus far, after a mere week in my possession, it has explained the reason I have become invisible in my department! I knew I needed my own copy. Yes, it is depressing -- but it is better to know what you are up against than to stick your head in the sand and ignore the problems. Yes, it is dated in parts -- you don't need to read the sections on using a computer -- still, even though the statistics are from the late 1970s, they are no less telling about the plight of many an ABD over the last 30 years. Lastly, I would also recommend this book to the significant other of the ABD. It clarifies the process and the pitfalls. It is, as promised, a survival guide surpassing all the deadly "how-to" books.
Rating: 1
Summary: Negative view of Dissertation
Comment: I was incredibly surprised at how negative this book was about dissertation completion. The last thing someone needs when starting out the process of writing a dissertation is reading about how many people never complete their work. A how-to book should be encouraging not discouraging. There are plenty of other books available that explain the process while leaving this authors cynicism at the door.
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